I just returned from court after a Not Guilty verdict in a DUI. There were 14 Body Cams but only one that was diapositive. That Body Cam showed my client at his car and the subsequent field sobriety testing. The officer's report was 100% accurate, but there is a...
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Harford County- 3rd Recent DUI Dismissal and $185.00 Court Costs Instead of 9 Months
In the past few months I have had 3 DUI cases dropped by the State. All were flawed as a result of the poor policing in the cases. The most recent had a video showing the officer did not do what was in the police report. Prior to his having a video camera, I had...
Body Cam Reveals Drugs Not In Plain View
A drug charge was dismissed today because the search of the car that found the drugs was not conducted properly. There was one Body Cams. The first officer picked up the box with the drugs and placed it back in the car. The second officer did not have a Body Cam...
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...
OUT- OF STATE DRIVER’S LICENSE MUST READ TO DRIVE IN MARYLAND
I watched a disaster today in Carroll County District Court. A Pennsylvania resident with a PA driver's license got a DUI and blew a .10. Instead of requesting a Hearing and getting a 6 month restricted license that would allow her to drive to her Maryland job, her...
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...
Harford County DUI Dismissal
The importance of police KGA Broadcasts can never be underestimated. My client tells me about his stop and subsequent arrest and I expect I will see the same information in the police report. I have had cases with this officer before and know what he does EVERY...
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...
Justice Department to Aggressively Pursue Marihuana and Mandatory Penalties
It is no secret that Attorney General Sessions is opposed to the use of marijuana for any purpose, including medicinally. He has appointed a former United State's Attorney from Tennessee to help implement the change. There has been a growing movement by CONSERVATIVES...
Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases
Because some clients do not know I handle these kinds of case, I have updated this website.There are many law firms who do Personal Injury and Wrongful Death work and turn your file over to their para-legals to do all the work. I do my own work. In my last...
