Hello, my name is Andrew Flusche and I'm your Virginia traffic and misdemeanor attorney.
If you're charged with possession of marijuana in Virginia you may be wondering what will
happen to your driver's license.
Unfortunately, if you're found guilty of possession of marijuana in Virginia, the law says that
they court has to suspend your license for six months.
Now, the judge can and many judges will give you a restricted license to drive for work
or school and things like that, but if you're found guilty he has to suspend your license
for six months.
So, how can we do anything about that?
Well, there are some options.
One option, of course, is to talk with me about beating your case.
You may have defenses to your case and I have lots of other videos about different issues
in marijuana cases.
So, check those out and we'll see about if you have a defense for your Virginia possession
of marijuana case.
The second alternative is sometimes we can try to get the charge amended to something
where it would not incur any license suspension and that's one thing a lot of my clients hire
me to do is to try to get their charge amended to something like possession of drug paraphernalia
where there is no required or even possible license suspension.
It's still a misdemeanor charge and most cases if it's amended that you be found guilty of
it, but that's something where we can try to save your driver's license at least so
you don't have to jump through the hoops of a restricting license and of course file the
more expensive SR22 insurance with DMV.
So, if you're charged with possession of marijuana in Virginia and want to talk about options
to save your driver's license, give me a call.
There certainly are no guarantees about what will happen in court, but we can definitely
explore the possibilities together and let's start today.