Clients sometimes want to create a new reality. They do this by not telling the lawyer the truth or all the facts. They hope it gets hidden that way. I tell everyone I need to know exactly what happened.. I am a really good lawyer according to my peers and clients,...
Tough Times Call For Tough Representation
Criminal Defense
You Pay Peanuts You Get a Monkey
That is a phrase my former partner used years ago when he set a fee and the potential client said he or she knew a cheaper lawyer. I started writing this a couple months ago but thought I would finish it today. The particular case that generates this was an Ex...
Bail in 2017
The criteria for bail has been changed because Attorney General Frosh found that the system of cash bail is unfair to minorities and the poor. Our Attorney General has been a champion for those in the State who are without power and who areb unfairly targeted, wither...
Upcoming Violation of Probation for a New Client Another Lawyer Plead Guilty And Who was Innocent
Sometimes the deal is SOOO good that a defendant who is innocent accepts it, but the deal has to good if the downside of being convicted at a trial is much worse. It is called an Alford plea and is based on a Supreme Court decision in Alford v. North Carolina. The...
Justice Gorsuch and the Fourth Amendment
I have copied and pasted an Article for the ScotusBlog about our newest Supreme Court Associate Justice and his Search and Seizure rulings. Most people who are not familiar with the judicial philosophy of "originalists" think that rule against criminal defendants all...
My Criminal Defense Practice
Most of my website focuses on my DUI practice. If you are contacting me for a DUI through the website, you have probably just returned home from the police station and are looking for a lawyer. I have decided to add some information on the Home Page about my non DUI...
DUI and Criminal Defense Practice in 2017
As technology use becomes prevalent in law enforcement, we are seeing more and more video interaction between police and clients. The more recent Blogs cover some of these cases. Body Cam footage has been extremely valuable in the defense of cases. Car video has...
Handgun Dismissal
If you are convicted of possessing a gun on the streets of Baltimore City, the State is going to ask that you be sentenced to jail. That is their policy and the judges are not going to be sympathetic to anything other than jail. That is a dynamic that 300 murders...
Domestic Violence Case Injustice
I had a DV case dismissed this morning because the alleged victim failed to appear for the second time. She should have been charged with assault and therefore required to be there but the system is sometimes rigged against a man. The facts I am going to set forth...
As a Lawyer it was Embarassing to Watch
Whatever your profession, when someone screws up or is incompetent, it is embarrassing to watch. You feel like the "civilians" think we are all like that. Today a lawyer asked a judge before a guilty plea in a DUI to defer sentencing for a few months so the client...
