Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

Re: Carrying a concealed knife laws and sentencing.

You haven't indicated which jurisdiction(city or county)in Virginia you picked up the most recent charge, but assuming it's one in Northern Virginia, given your previous record, there's a good chance that the prosecutor will ask for some jail time if you're convicted or enter a plea to the concealed knife offense. A conviction or entry of a plea for the knife offense would also be a basis to have you found in violation of the terms of your current DWI probation and to have additional sacntions imposed for this offense(DWI) which may have been suspended.

On the day of trial the prosecutor will have your complete "rap sheet", so to speak, showing all of your convictions wherever in the U.S. they occurred, which you and your attorney will want to scrutinze very carefully to ensure that it doesn't include convictions which either belong to someone else or of which you were never convicted.

You were very foolish to consent to the search of your vehicle as few people can ever be absolutely sure of what a police officer conducting such a search might find. (I'm a fisherman as well as occasional hunter and at this very moment could not tell you exactly what's under the seats of my SUV-----and whether it's all, necessarily, legal. Needless to say, under no circumstances would I ever consent to allow a police officer to search my vehicle.)