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On Monday September 20th, 2010, we were made aware of visitors to our websites receiving a virus when visiting our site.  We have since removed the malicious code, and have taken preventive measures to keep this from happening in the future.

If you visited the site using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, you most likely just received a message from Google indicating our site was not safe to browse to.  If you proceeded anyway, or were using an alternative browser, it is possible you were redirected to another site, and malware was attempted to be loaded onto your computer.  If you virus definitions are up-to-date, you should not fear.  For more information on protecting your computer in the future, please see this link from the FBI with basic steps you can take to ensure your computer and Internet browsing is safer.

It is our hope that this had minimal impact on all visitors to our website.  If you have any further questions or concerns regarding this issue, please contact our webmaster at Dan@ARTechnologiesLLC.com.

We frequently meet with potential clients who did not do anything wrong.  It is not uncommon for a person to go the District Court commissioner to claim another person committed a crime against them.  Typical cases involve angry neighbors, jealous ex-boyfriends, or just plain crazy people.  Unfortunately, people with no experience with the criminal justice system who assume that everything will resolve it self properly are in the most danger of suffering grave consequences.  People who know how the system works (often that means people with frequent contacts in the system) know how to abuse the process to mistreat someone else.  The biggest myth of the criminal justice system is “innocent until proven guilty.”  The fact is that if you are charged with a crime, even if the charge is an outrageous lie made by someone with a vendetta against you, no one will believe a word you say because you are the “defendant.”  The innocent person is the person most in need of an experienced lawyer who knows how to get the police and prosecutors to listen to the truth.  If you feel you are in this situation, please contact us to set up a free consultation.  “The truth will set you free” only if you can make sure that the truth will be heard.  Dino

     Recently Bryon defended a client who had been charged with carrying a concealed deadly weapon.  They had a tazer in their car and after being stopped for an unrelated matter were arrested and charged with the offense.  In Maryland this offense carries a potential of 3 years in prison and a fine of up to $1,000.00.

     After sitting down with the prosecutor and the statute books Bryon was able to successfully convince the State that the tazer in this instance, while perhaps a weapon, was not a dangerous weapon within the pervues of the criminal section his client was charged under.  The charge was dropped without the risk of a trial.  Just the way we like it.

Of course we are biased but we at Schaffer, Black & Flores P.C. feel it is always in your best interest to have a competent, experienced lawyer on your side in all phases of a criminal proceeding.  An article in the Frederick News Post drives home the point and how one person will be paying for that mistake for the rest of his life. 

            The Defendant, who was represented by other attorneys, was convicted of a misdemeanor sexual offense.  At sentencing the New Post reported that he stated to the court that “I told my story to the sheriff’s office without a lawyer to save taxpayers money. I had no criminal intent in any way.  Some statements were very much taken out of context and were made after I was placed in what I would call a torture chamber environment.  I don’t think what I said was really me. I really didn’t defend myself.”

            When in doubt call a lawyer.  It’s one of the reasons why we offer free consultations.

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