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Over the course of the last decade, I’ve published in excess of 700 articles in the areas of personal injury, criminal defense, workers’ compensation and insurance disputes, generally. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, feel free to contact me to discuss the details of your case and learn how I can help.

Accidental Injury Counselor for Baltimore’s Medfield/21211 Neighborhood
Quality legal service, like well-known, time-honored respected and trusted brands, simply never goes out of style. A skilled accidental injury counselor for Baltimore’s Medfield/21211 neighborho...
What Do These Letters, Abbreviations or Codes Mean On Maryland’s Case Search?
The State of Maryland provides a free, and easily accessible database containing important information about civil and criminal cases, as well as data about liens. Most who use it regularly call it...
What Are My Options If The Insurance Company Won’t Pay My Baltimore Car Accident Claim?
Insurance companies can be quite creative and enterprising when setting forth reasons that a claim is denied, coverage is disclaimed, or otherwise not acted upon. If your claim is denied you have few...
What Reasons Do The Police Need to Stop My Car?
Over the years I Attorney Eric T. Kirk has seen this scenario unfold hundreds if not thousands of times. A car is pulled over. As a result of the exchange between the officer and the driver...
If Baltimore Police Stop Your Car, How Long Can They Keep You There?
If a police officer has ‘reasonable suspicion’ to believe criminal activity is underway, in or connected with the use of a car, the law permits them to initiate a traffic stop. Perhaps the...
Can The Police Search Me, My Car, And The Glove Box, And The Trunk After Pulling Me Over?
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees each of us the right to be secure in our person and our effects. We enjoy a constitutional privilege against oppressive and unreasonab...
Does the Plain View Theory Allow The Baltimore Police To Take My Property?
Does the Plain View Theory Allow The Baltimore Police To Take My Property? It certainly can. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly told us that any search conducted without the protections of a warran...
Do I Have To Give Baltimore Police Permission to Search My Car?
Do I Have To Give Baltimore Police Permission to Search My Car? You can. You do not have to. If evidence is taken from your vehicle in violation of the 4th Amendment’s protections, the governmen...
What Is The Criminal Offense of Manslaughter By Vehicle?
Maryland law punishes the unintentional killing of an individual by use of car, motorcycle or boat in specific ways: If a death results from the Driving Operating, or controlling a vehicle or vessel i...
Do The Police Have to Have a Warrant to Search My Car?
The 4th Amendment to the US Constitution protects all of use from unreasonable intrusion by the government into our private affairs. Generally, before searching for contraband, or evidence of crime, t...
Can The Baltimore Police Order A Passenger To Get Out Of The Car?
Can The Baltimore Police Order A Passenger To Get Out Of The Car? What Legal Rights Do I Have As A Car Passenger? You do not lose your constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches, by ch...