Chairman Amicus Committee
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, serving on its Amicus Committee, and is former President of the Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys Association. In September 2008, the first edition of Stamms book, Maryland DUI Law, was published by West Publishing Company. 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 Georges Upper Marlboro and Hyattsville, Howard Ellicott City, Anne Arundel Annapolis and Glen Burnie, Calvert Prince Frederick, Charles La Plata, and St. Marys Leonardtown counties. Stamm also handles cases in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Caroline Denton, Frederick, Kent Chestertown, Queen Annes 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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