How Is Negligence Defined? What Does it Mean to Be Negligent?
Maryland juries are instructed that negligence is doing something that a person using ordinary care, caution and prudence would not do, or, in fact doing something that a reasonably cautious person wo...
What is the Difference Between A Baltimore Murder First Degree Charge and Second Degree?
What is the Difference Between A Baltimore Murder First Degree Charge and Second Degree? All murders committed in Baltimore are assumed to be “murder in the second”. If the State can...
How Does Maryland Law Define Malice?
In the criminal context, it is said that Malice is the intentional doing of a wrongful act to another without legal excuse or justification. It includes any wrongful act done wilfully or purposely....
What is Considered Gross Negligence Under Maryland Law?
It’s probable that any Baltimore attorney who deals in both personal injury and criminal defense cases has argued the distinctions between garden variety negligence, gross negligence [and potent...
What Are Manslaughter by Vehicle and Criminal Negligence in Maryland?
We’ve seen that a person who drives a vehicle in a grossly negligent manner, and causes death, commits manslaughter by vehicle, and can be subject to 10 years in prison. Seasoned Balti...
Homicide By Motor Vehicle While Under The Influence Of Alcohol or Impaired in Maryland
Negligent driving, alone, that results in the death of a person carries a penalty of three years. As Attorney Eric T. Kirk will tell you. The penalties go up if a vehicle and alcohol are involved...
What are the Penalties for a Child Abuse Conviction?
There is no question this is an ugly subject. Many good criminal defense lawyers Attorney Eric T. Kirk in Baltimore will shy away from representing those accused of these crimes. The social stigm...
Child Abuse – What Effect Does a Severe Severe Injury Have on the Charge?
The distinction in first and second degree child abuse rests on the severity of harm to the child victim. Experienced criminal defense lawyers Attorney Eric T. Kirk in Baltimore are aware the sta...
What is the Difference Between Child Abuse and Child Neglect?
Seasoned criminal defense lawyers Attorney Eric T. Kirk in Baltimore have successfully argued that, although either form of conduct is reprehensible, their client’s actions with respect to...
Threatening and Attempting to Burn under Maryland Law
Criminal Defense attorneys in Baltimore know that a written of verbal threat to burn a structure or set off a bomb, is treated seriously, carrying a penalty of 10 years in prison. Baltimore Criminal D...
Is Burning with Intent to Defraud Different Than Arson?
These are separate crimes, and the difference is in then intent of the perpetrator. Arson requires that the criminal act willfully and maliciously in setting something ablaze. Baltimore Criminal...
