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 Law
Wonderful Christmas Card
i just got a really nice card from a client who had multiple drug and alcohol issues. His father passed a way a few years ago and he got lost in grief. It took 2 cases to get him on track. Here is what he wrote: "Thank you for giving me a second chance to get my...
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...
Health-care bill would drop addiction treatment mandate covering 1.3 million Americans
This issue has nothing to do with whether you voted for President Trump or Ms. Clinton. Obama care may be a disaster, my premiums skyrocketed like yours. There were 4 needed features - coverage of pre-existing illnesses, children remaining on a parent's policy until...
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...
PBT Not Admissible
While sitting in Howard County last week before my trial, a scrum broke out in court over the admissibility of a PBT result during sentencing. The judge asked my opinion and I explained to her that it is only admissible at the Office of Administrative Hearings on the...
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...