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So, hypothetically speaking here, you find yourself out late at night and you get into a little bit of trouble. The police show up and you are placed under arrest. You might wonder what’s going to happen to you after you’ve been cuffed and put into the squad car. You...

Finally some positive changes are on the horizon to address the injustice of federal forfeiture law and the so called Equitable Sharing Program.  Under the Equitable Sharing Program, state, county and local police departments routinely seize currency or other valuable...

If you hold a Maryland driver’s license but receive a traffic ticket while driving through New York, you may think that ticket will never find its way onto your driving record. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. As Maryland and New York are both signatories of the...

Should Police Be Allowed To Search A Cell Phone Without A Warrant? The question of whether the police can search ones cell phone without a search warrant has been at issue in numerous cases handled by the Firm over the past few years. In The Eyes Of The Defense The...

It’s Friday night. You’re ready to go home after a night out, but you've been drinking. So rather than drive home, you figure you’ll get some shut eye in the car and drive home in the morning once you've sobered up. You get in and close your eyes. 45 minutes later, a...

We've heard it time and again, "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law..." This iteration of the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination has become a part of our cultural lexicon. Those words have...