Leonard
Stamm has been a practicing drunk driving, DUI, DWI, and criminal
defense lawyer in the District, Circuit, and appellate courts
of Maryland since 1984. Stamm is recognized as an authority in
the area of drunk driving defense and Motor Vehicle Administration
hearings in Maryland and has lectured and written extensively
on this topic in Maryland and around the country. He has been
a speaker at and has organized numerous continuing legal education
seminars since 1986.
He is presently a Regent of the National
College for DUI Defense and Chairman of its Amicus Committee,
and is former President of the Maryland
Criminal Defense Attorneys' Association. In September
2008, the first edition of Stamm's book, Maryland
DUI Law, was published by West
Publishing Company. He recently won a jury acquittal for a state delegate charged with driving while impaired (read the story) and was recognized by the Daily Record for having joined in an amicus brief on behalf of the National College for DUI Defense, authored by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and filed on behalf of the winning side in the United States Supreme Court in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts. (Read the story).
He also serves on the Maryland Criminal Pattern Jury Instruction
Committee of the Maryland
State Bar Association. He has had a number of articles
published in the Champion magazine, the magazine of the National
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He has
been qualified as a practitioner and an instructor in standardized
field sobriety tests in accordance with standards set forth
by the International
Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and completed
a certification class as an operator and maintenance technician
for the Intoxilyzer 5000. He hosted a training seminar
in the Intox EC/IR. Stamm holds a certificate of successful
completion for the Robert F. Borkenstein Course on "Alcohol,
Drugs, and Highway Safety: Testing, Research, and Litigation"
based out of Indiana University at Bloomington.
He is one of the few lawyers in the country to have taken
a two and a half day overview of the Drug Recognition Expert
(DRE) program. Martindale-Hubbell gives him an "AV" rating. He has also been
listed in "Super
Lawyers" and "Best
Lawyers."
Since 1991, after the death of his partner, Alan
J. Goldstein, he has maintained a practice under the name
of Goldstein & Stamm, P.A. in Greenbelt, Maryland. In early
2004, Andrea
Hayduk joined the firm as an associate attorney also focusing
on drunk driving, DUI, DWI, and criminal cases in the District,
Circuit, and appellate courts of Maryland. In early 2008,
Ms. Hayduk relocated to her home in Tennessee and was replaced
by Johanna
Leshner.
The firm represents individuals accused of crimes and traffic
offenses in state and federal courts, primarily in Montgomery (Rockville and Silver Spring), Prince
George's (Upper Marlboro and Hyattsville), Howard (Ellicott City), Anne
Arundel (Annapolis and Glen Burnie), Calvert (Prince Frederick),
Charles (La Plata), and St. Mary's (Leonardtown) counties. Stamm
also handles cases in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Caroline
(Denton), Frederick, Kent (Chestertown), Queen Anne's (Centreville),
and Talbot (Easton) counties, and has handled cases in Dorchester,
Garrett, Harford, Washington, Wicomico, and Worcester counties.
Stamm handles appeals in the Maryland appellate courts, and is
admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and
the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond.
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