Acquittal After Jury Trial In the Circuit Court for Montgomery County
On February 14, 2013 after a two day jury trial our client was totally acquitted of all charges in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County before the Honorable Michael Mason. Our client was charged...
View ArticleAddicted To Painkillers But Not Ready For Help
Paul Christopher, M.D. of The New York Times, wrote a compelling article about the struggle facing an addict, a potential patient of his. Prescription drug abuse is America’s fastest-growing drug...
View ArticlePrison Inmates Preparing For Success
Gregory Fairchild, a professor of business administration at the University of Virginia Darden School, wrote about the school’s recent endeavor to assist prison inmates prepare for success after...
View ArticleRogue Lab Shakes 34,000 MA Drug Convictions
Recently the prosecution of drug cases in Massachusetts has been shaken to its core with the discovery of a chemist who allegedly mishandled drug samples. Annie Dookhan testified in 2010 that she was...
View ArticleA Fairer Deal For Those Who Plea
The Wall Street Journal reported that 97 percent of cases the Justice Department prosecuted last year ended with guilty pleas, up from 84 percent in 1990. The ratio is nearly as high at the state...
View ArticleJudge Taylor Left His Mark on Prince George’s County
Judge Taylor presided over my first trial in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County in 1972. Judge Taylor was extraordinarily kind to new lawyers like myself who did not even know “what lawyers...
View ArticleRecognizing Juveniles’ Potential for Rehabilitation
Ethan Bronner of The New York Times reported that the United States Supreme Court barred life sentences for juveniles convicted of murder in the sharpest indication to date of a shift in how the...
View ArticleWarning of Deportation as a Collateral Consequence is not Retroactive
In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled that criminal defense lawyers must warn their clients if deportation could be a collateral consequence of a guilty plea. This February, the court limited the reach of...
View ArticleMaryland Politics Dual Approach to Marijuana
This term Maryland politicians have begun voting on passing one or both of the dual national movements surrounding Marijuana; decriminalization and medical use. The Maryland Senate voted 30-16 on...
View ArticleChallenges Plague the Budding Pot Industry Despite State Legality and...
According to the Pew Research Center, a majority of Americans now say marijuana should be legal, 52 versus 45 percent. The overall shift in support is driven by wide acceptance among younger Americans...
View ArticleINNOCENT CLIENT FINALLY VINDICATED BY JURY FINDING OF NOT GUILTY AFTER THIRD...
Client was originally charged with Second Degree Rape, Second and Third Degree Sex Offense. The initial trial proceeded in 2010 at which time the client was found not guilty of Second and Third Degree...
View ArticleCounterculture hero, Paolo Soleri, Dies at 93.
I have been a fan of Paolo Soleri and his architecture since I was a teenager. I have visited his settlement in the high Arizona desert, Arcosanti and recommend a visit by all visionaries who may read...
View ArticleThe Brady Rule, Calling for Open File Discovery Reform
Fifty years ago, in the landmark case Brady v. Maryland, the Supreme Court laid down a fundamental principle about the duty of prosecutors — to seek justice in fair trials, not merely to win...
View ArticleRecommendation to drop the legal limit from 0.08 to 0.05
The National Transportation Safety Board wants state legislatures to drop the measure from the current blood-alcohol level of 0.08 to 0.05. The research clearly shows that drivers with a BAC of 0.05...
View ArticleDriving under the influence, new legal limits of marijuana levels.
With the recreational use of marijuana now legal in Colorado, officers who patrol the state’s roads face a new set of challenges. Though smoking or possessing small amounts of cannabis is no longer...
View ArticleThe racially biased ‘war on marijuana’
New federal data, included in a study by the American Civil Liberties Union, shows that the problem of racially biased arrests is far more extensive than was previously known- and is getting worse. The...
View ArticleJury Finds Client Not Guilty After Four Day Trial in the Circuit Court for...
Our client was charged with illegal possession of four handguns including two semi-automatic weapons. Our client and this office maintained the client’s innocence from the outset. The State continued...
View ArticleNo ‘accepted medical use’ yet medical marijuana has been shown to ease pain.
Special to the Washington Post, Kathryn Petrides, reported that dispensaries aren’t yet open, but when drugs failed, cannabis helped her endure side effects of chemo. My breast cancer diagnosis at age...
View ArticleDeath penalty convictions under review due to FBI forensic testimony errors
The Washington Post reported on July 17, 2013, that an unprecedented federal review of old criminal cases has uncovered as many as 27 death penalty convictions in which FBI forensic experts may have...
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