Check to make sure you don’t lose your home over an unpaid bill

Every year thousands of properties go to auction at tax sales throughout Maryland―and not just for owed taxes. Unpaid property taxes, water bills and other bills owed to a Maryland county or Baltimore for repairs such as alley paving can cause you to lose your home. More  Read More →

First Twitter libel suit featuring Courtney Love

Singer Courtney Love has sounded off on Twitter about her former fashion designer, Dawn Simorangkir, calling her a "nasty, lying, hosebag thief” among other things More  Read More →

Juror sent “tweets” during $12.6 million case

An Arkansas business owner has appealed a $12.6 million verdict , claiming that a juror “tweeted” details from the case during the trial.  More  Read More →

Letter to the Editor

To be frank, I was shocked that “How many ticking time bombs are out there” appeared in a legal newspaper [August’s  Exhibit A]. Dan Dreibelbis, a professor and retired FBI agent, condemns the recent Supreme Court decision which granted habeas corpus rights to the Gitmo detainees. How can anyone in the United States be opposed to our Bill of Rights? Possibly the most important right of all is due process. Without due process, we have no justice system. The professor lamely argues that the... More

How an FBI informant took down a crooked city politician

The word “informant” conjures up equal amounts of pride and angst in law enforcement officers. Frequently referred to as the lifeblood of investigations, an informant is a vital resource for investigators at every level.  I saw many different types of informants during my 25-year tenure as a Special Agent with the FBI. I was fortunate to deal with informants who made cases for me or my fellow agents. But I also saw how informants can be clever, ruthless people who can walk between raindrops... More

Stop the cycle of crime and prison

We’ve all heard prison horror stories: violence, intimidation, a never-ending quest to preserve one’s manhood. From the outside looking in, it is difficult to confirm or deny any of these accounts. Just the thought of confinement would give most law-abiding citizens the willies. Still, for many Marylanders, incarceration has become a way of life.  Why is this? Why would anyone choose to be locked up in a cage, surrounded by the same sex, and ordered about by a proverbial baby-sitter time and... More

Corruption investigations grind along

The public corruption investigations of Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and state Sen. Ulysses Currie remind me of the offense run by former Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes.  Coach Hayes was very conservative. He used a slow, grinding, run-dominated offense known as “three yards and a cloud of dust.” He hardly ever called for a pass as his offense pounded the opposition and gradually moved the ball downfield.  More  Read More →

Working hard and pulling together

The dictionary defines community as a unified body of individuals; people with common interests living in a particular area. During the second half of the 20th century many of Baltimore’s thriving communities were faced with various urban ills, and in some cases the definition of community was lost. One of these communities would be Sandtown in West Baltimore. For African-Americans in the 1940s and 1950s, Pennsylvania Avenue was the cornerstone of local black retail and culture, thriving with 40,000... More

How many ticking time bombs are out there?

As I reflect on the recent Supreme Court decision concerning legal rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees, Abdullah Salih al Ajmi comes to mind. Ajmi is a former Kuwaiti detainee who was held with other suspected terrorists at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo. Ajmi was released but returned to the battlefield on March 23, when he and another Kuwaiti conducted a suicide truck bombing at an Iraqi military outpost in Mosul. Thirteen Iraqi soldiers were killed and 42 wounded in the attack. More  Read More →

Letter to the Editor

Just wanted to drop a line saying how much I enjoyed reading your publication, Exhibit A. As one who is “legally-challenged,” I found your pub to be straight to the point, AND easy to read and comprehend. The issue that I just finished reading was the one on “Grappling With Gangs.” I don’t know if this was your premiere issue or not, as I haven’t seen this pub before. I reside in Harford County and we seem to be a little behind the times on what’s happening elsewhere … which may... More

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