The police said he confessed!!! Not so fast Sparky! If you listened to the second 1/2 of the "Controlled Call" between Police Officer # 1 and my client- he comes out of the jilted lover stupor he was in and basically asks what the hell are you talking about. He...
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Attempted First Degree Murder Down To Assault And A PJB- How’d That Happen
There was a shooting at Towson University in 2021 and my client was arrested for Attempted First Degree Murder. The police believed he had a gun and shot 2 students and then himself. Well they were wrong, but understandably so. In the chaos, my client was taken to...
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Celebrating Client’s 25th Year Of Sobriety
Last night was a special night for me in Harford County. Over 30 years ago I began representing and successfully defending a young alcoholic. Finally in 1997 I sent him from my office to rehab. He wanted to leave but they tested him first and he was still drunk and...
Handgun Dismissal
The last blog was about reading the statute. READ the case law as well. I had a client on his way to target practice with an unloaded gun in the glove box and the bullets in a case in the trunk. The officer who stoped him for a traffic violation saw the gun and got...
Not Guilty Baltimore County Jury Trial
Read the statute! It just might not apply to the client's illegal conduct. I was hired after the client discharged the Public Defender. The prosecutor had the file dumped on him at the last moment and offered 18 months in the County Jail or Hime Detention. My...
Harford County Jury Acquits in Leaving the Scene of Accident Resulting in Death and DUI
There was no excitement or smiles after the jury acquitted my client at 7:30 Friday night of the dozen charges brought against him for a July 2020 accident where a wonderful son and friend lost his life. First, about the victim, Alessandro Lori. He was the kind of kid...
Baltimore County Police Officers Unbelievable Restraint
If you have watched the news you have seen the Body Camera footage of a LA police officer using a "SWAT" rifle to shoot an asshole attacking a woman in a store with a padlock device. You will also se a police officer with a handgun approaching the assailant as well....
Make it 6 in a row- no mention of Groucho
Before I could get to the "lying eyes" quote the judge said when I moved to suppress the arrest that this was a close case. That means no proof beyond a reasonable doubt. But he was impressed with my 5'11" inch 250 pounds of girth performance on the SFSTs. Now the...
NG 4 and 5- Circuit Court for Baltimore County- Groucho has a Hat Trick
Two jury trials scheduled yesterday but 2 Motions to Suppress the arrests. I had a really good prosecutor, but I also had the better of the evidence. The first involved an MDTA officer who was out of his jurisdiction when he stopped my client. He first saw my...