The primary purpose of a strong criminal defense is to protect the rights of the accused. That means a skilled criminal defense attorney in Virginia must stay abreast of changes to the law and ensure that police reports and prosecutors' complaints are thoroughly analyzed for flaws. Sometimes these reports are written after investigators conduct an interview with a person who wishes to file a criminal charge against another person. In such a case, physical evidence may be recorded, but the charges may also involve one person's word against another's. And readers in Fairfax County know that there are often many sides to one story.

That may be the case for one man from Sterling who was recently accused of assault. Police issued a warrant for the man's arrest after one of his co-workers told police that he assaulted her. The female employee claimed that she and the 30-year-old man got into an argument while at work in Vienna. She said the man assaulted her during the argument. The nature of the alleged assault was not disclosed in a local news report, nor was it indicated whether the woman suffered any injuries.

To his credit, the accused man went to the Vienna police station to discuss the case after the warrant was issued. Based on the warrant, police then arrested the man and put him in jail at Fairfax County Adult Detention Center. Whether he was eventually released was not stated in the news report.

When assault charges are filed, it is important for a criminal defense to look carefully at the circumstances of the incident in question. One person's word against another's is not enough to convict a defendant. Rather, there must be undoubted evidence for a court to find a person guilty, and a strategic criminal defense will seek to raise that doubt.

Source: wusa9.com, "Cricket Store Employee Arrested For Assaulting Fellow Worker," Meta Pettus, Feb. 3, 2012