Personal Injury Advocate for Baltimore’s Mount Vernon Quarter
I provide legal services to Baltimore residents injured in car accidents or other personally maiming events occurring in Baltimore’s Mt. Vernon neighborhood. I have gleaned some knowledge of per...
If The 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?
The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly told us that any search conducted without the protections of a warrant [i.e. the finding of probable cause by a judicial officer] is presumptively unreasonable an...
Do I Have To Give The Police Permission to Search My Car?
If evidence is taken from your vehicle in violation of the 4th Amendment’s protections, the government cannot later use that evidence to obtain your conviction. The starting point in dealing wit...
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 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 choosing to ride in someone else’s vehicle. While the Supreme...
If I Have a New Personal Injury Case, Can I Still Consult With A Lawyer During the Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic?
I Attorney Eric T. Kirk have always had a preference for an initial, in-person conference, planning and strategy session at the initiation of every case. The Coronavirus/COVID...
If I Am Arrested While Driving, Can the Police Search My Car?
A time-honored, long-standing exception to the warrant requirement is a search incident to a lawful arrest. If the police have probable cause to arrest a suspect, as part of the arrest process, they a...
Who Is Considered an Essential/ Critical Employee During the COVID19/ Corona Virus Pandemic?
In response to the ever expanding COVID19 pandemic, on 3/23/20, Gov. Larry Hogan directed all ‘non-essential’ businesses to close down and cease operations. The next logical question would...
