AVVO is not a safe place to describe your alleged crime!

We ask all of our clients to avoid posting details about their alleged crimes on ANY social media site. The internet is completely open to the public, and that includes the prosecutors seeking to put you in jail-- They read everything.

Below is an AVVO posting that appeared on July 8, 2017. This person is shocked that his AVVO questions made it to the criminal file maintained by the prosecutor's office. And if he admitted to bad things in those on-line postings, or perhaps shared details of the alleged crime not generally known to others, then evidence of the posting may well lead to his conviction.

The only safe place to be completely open about criminal accusations is within the sanctity of the attorney-client relationship. But if you have already disclosed details of the alleged crime on the internet before we establish an attorney-client relationship, you may have done great damage to your potential defenses.

My avvo questions and answers have made it to my criminal discovery in my robbery case Location: Washington, DC how did they make it there? can they be used against me? there are some ip logs from my internet service providers and a return of service there. what does that mean?

Liars are always ready to take oaths.

Baltimore is no longer the set of "The Wire, " where fictional police (pronounced locally as "poh-leece") lie and manipulate their way to an arrest.  Or isn't it? On March 24, 2013, Justin George, of The Baltimore Sun, reported on the alleged police misconduct of a Baltimore City cop, Kendall Richburg.   And it is script-worthy, indeed. As a lawyer, I laugh only to keep from crying.

Mr. George chronicles the wrongful conviction of an alleged drug buyer convicted on Officer Richburg's lie about actually observing the "hand-to-hand" drug purchase. This story details some pretty awful police conduct, and it would be appalling enough, on its own, even without the full back story of Officer Richburg's misdeeds.

Keep up to date on the U.S. Attorney's Mortgage Fraud task force

The phrase "tip of the iceberg" comes to mind as I read the press releases on the U.S. Attorney's website. His collection of prosecutions and pleas are significant, surely, but my own experience is that dozens of settlement companies and their owners have simply melted away into the mist with their ill-gotten gains.

We have brought prosecutors iron clad cases of fraud, with deposition transcripts and documented transactions, only to be told that sums in the range of $300,000 are not big enough for prosecution. Worse, we are told that "its a business matter," and we should continue to pursue our civil remedies.