Maryland law requires that the client receive treatment in a “certified” program. Some programs offer more than what they are certified to do. Some do not have the proper counselors teaching the “certified” program so that the treatment does not meet the...
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Criminal Defense
Update to What Did I Do With My Magic Wand?
The lawyer he hired lost his magic wand as well. Just checked and saw the guy got 30 days.
Update to Prescription Pills and Teenagers
I got the client a second probation here to go along with the 2 in another county-that totals 4. All the judges agreed to modify to a PBJ if successful on probation. My client gave a nice speech to the judge about being clean, living in a sober house, working, going...
What Did I Do With My Magic Wand?
The more a client screws up, the more they expect the unattainable. Someone came in to see me, and I am so sure I will not get a call back, I can write generally about the case. The facts are awful. Nobody died or was injured, but that was just an accident of timing...
NOT GUILTY Baltimore City Circuit Court Jury Trial
It took less than a day of trial and the jury less than 10 minutes to acquit my client. I was disappointed because I told the jury they shouldn’t be out more than a few minutes before acquitting. This was a case where because of the “policy” of the State’s Attorney’s...
Prescription Pills and Teenagers
There may be nothing harder than getting through to a teenager who is addicted to pills. Oxycodone is synthetic heroin. It does not matter how affluent your family is, heroin is heroin, and it is the ultimate monkey on the back of any person. Couple that with raw...
Motion to Suppress
Had an interesting Motion to Suppress yesterday that was granted. The issue involved the seizure of pills from the console of my client’s vehicle. We dealt with those drugs before we dealt with the arrest for possession of marihuana. That too was suppressed, but...
You are too late if you are reading this
If you are reading this you have been charged with an offense and looking for an attorney. Here is a variable neither you nor I have control over. These cases were not triable. A good search in the first caseand the second client was caught at the scene with the...
Update to DRE
The Judge never got to rule on the DRE because I got the charge dismissed on technical grounds. I wonder how happy he was to learn about that? The arresting officer was shocked. My client was happy.
SEARCH AND SEIZURE UPDATE ARIZONA V. GANT ( http://supct. law. cornell. edu /supct /html /07-542.ZS.html )
I was asked in 2004 by a judge to participate in his trial advocacy course at a local law school. I suggested that he use the Thornton v. United States ( http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-5165.ZS.html ) case as his teaching example because Justice Scalia’s...
