Posts by Drew Cochran

While recreational marijuana is still illegal here in Maryland, there are options for people to become medical patients, and the drug has been decriminalized to a point in general. This is great! Sort of. The problem with a lot of medical marijuana programs, especially in states where it’s new and ONLY medical, is there are…

Remember when kids just… left the house every day, from Monday through Friday, for several hours each day? Remember when you could work from home just to change things up, and no one was, like, flushing a toilet during your conference call, or hitting their brother with a wiffle ball bat, or eating cheese curls…

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a financial strain on hundreds of Maryland individuals facing home detention for sentencing and pre-trial matters. Because jury trials are suspended until at least April, if you’re on house arrest, you may be staying that way a little longer. And that means you’re stuck paying home detention fees until the…

In a story where viral video meets questionable parenting meets risky driving, a teen TikTok user is finding himself under scrutiny after he posted a video of himself misusing his Tesla Autopilot feature. Although the clip was posted back in November 2020, the clip recently resurfaced after being discovered by tens of thousands of users,…

Q: What’s the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion? A: A good lawyer. I love that joke for two reasons: it assumes we win our cases, and it shows exactly how difficult a white-collar criminal case can be. It’s a popular myth that all white-collar defendants are like Bernie Madoff, engaging in egregious acts…

On December 26, 2020, a former Maryland mail carrier pleaded guilty to stealing credit cards from the mail. The federal prosecutor’s offices said that the 27-year-old female mail carrier, Daniyelle Barnes, faces up to five years in prison. The investigation into the mail carrier’s conduct started back in July 2019 when police officers “found 12…

Since December 2020, there has been a spike in the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths across the country. The spike is causing some hospitals to prioritize which patients they can treat and which ones they can’t treat. To help reduce the spread of the deadly disease, the Maryland Court of Appeals announced that jury…

It’s one thing for a few college students to be charged with possession or even sale of small amounts of marijuana. It’s another when they’re charged with trafficking in more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana and large amounts of other drugs including several hundred kilos of cocaine and ecstasy. A federal investigation found that the…

There are all kinds of creative ways parents come up with to punish or discipline their kids these days. The thing is that there really isn’t any need to recreate the wheel when it comes to correcting a child’s behavior. The basics still work like a charm and they’re not likely to land you in…

So you’ve committed a crime and someone saw you do it. You know if they’re discovered, or worse, have already come forward, you have a problem. Getting them out of the way seems like a fantastic idea to clear your path to freedom, doesn’t it? If nobody can say they saw you, it all goes…