If you hired an attorney and decided to fight your criminal charges, you likely wanted to prove your innocence. Rather than pleading guilty to quickly put the issue behind you, you chose instead to fight back. Sometimes, your chances of success will diminish because...
Year: 2021
When do doctors fail to provide a reasonable standard of care?
Doctors don’t always get things right, and some of their mistakes can lead to serious problems. If your doctor makes the wrong diagnosis or diagnoses your illness too late, the consequences may be severe. However, such mistakes may not yet qualify as medical...
Consumer Reports: Pick-ups getting bigger, deadlier
When you walk onto the lot of a Greenbelt-area car dealership, one of the first things you’ll notice is that large vehicles dominate the inventory. America has an enormous appetite for big SUVs, crossovers and pick-up trucks. Bulking up “Size creep” is evident across...
Youth on trial: Cases often include false confessions, false witness statements
No one enjoys admitting that they made a serious mistake. But when that reluctance is part of the criminal justice system, errors can mean that people who are not guilty of crimes spend years of their lives behind bars. One such case began in November 1983, when a...