A Baltimore defense practice for people, not case files

Criminal cases are won or lost in the details of how evidence was gathered. Before any conversation about a plea, this firm works through the discovery line by line: the charging documents, the officer's narrative, dispatch records, body-camera and dash-camera footage, lab reports, phone extractions, search warrant applications and the exact words of every witness statement.

That review regularly turns up problems the State would rather not litigate — a traffic stop extended without reasonable suspicion, a warrant supported by stale or secondhand information, a field sobriety test administered off protocol, a photo array that told the witness who to pick. When those problems exist, they belong in a written motion in front of a judge, not in a hallway negotiation.

When the evidence is strong, the work shifts to consequences: keeping a felony from becoming a conviction record, preserving a driver's license and a job, arguing for probation before judgment, diversion, treatment, or a sentence that lets a client keep working and supporting a family. Clients hear honestly which of those outcomes is realistic.