PBJ, Masking, and your Maryland Commercial Driver’s License (DCL)

License, PBJ, Traffic

Maryland’s Probation Before Judgement disposition is often used in minor traffic cases to allow people to avoid the points from a conviction from impacting their insurance rates.  Probation Before Judgement allows a judge to impose probation before a judgement is entered, and upon the successful completion of the probation (frequently a one-day unsupervised probation), stops…

Whren Stops in Maryland

All, Driving Without Insurance, Driving Without License, License, Revoked License, Speeding, Suspended License, Traffic, Unmarked Police Vehicle

A pretextual stop is one wherein a police officer has motive other than an observed traffic violation (ex. to search for drugs) to stop a driver. Although the Fourth Amendment protects against illegal search and seizure, it was unanimously decided in Whren v. United States, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, that any traffic…