On June 27, 2008, STSW partner Andrew C. White convinced U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz to ignore the federal sentencing guidelines in a mail fraud case in United States District Court in Baltimore, Maryland.  STSW’s client was a senior former official at a Maryland bank who had pleaded guilty to engineering a complex three-year fraud scheme which resulted in a loss to the bank of over $1,000,000.  At the sentencing hearing, prosecutors with the United States Attorney’s Office argued that the client should receive a sentence of between 41-51 months in federal prison.  Under Judge Motz’s sentence, however, the client will spend approximately ten months at a federal prison camp.  STSW attorneys convinced the Court not to apply the federal sentencing guidelines because of several factors including the client’s difficult family circumstances, his exemplary conduct both before and after the offense, as well as the length of the FBI investigation into the theft. 

We serve the following Maryland localities: Baltimore City Circuit Court including Patapsco, Wabash and North Avenue Courts; Baltimore County Circuit court including Towson, Catonsville and Essex Courts; Anne Arundel County Circuit Court including Annapolis and Glen Burnie Courts; Harford County Circuit Court including Bel Air; Howard County Circuit Court including Columbia and Ellicott City; Prince George's County including Hyattsville and Upper Marlboro Courts; Montgomery County including Rockville and Silver Spring courts; all Maryland federal courts including both Baltimore and Greenbelt, the Maryland Court of Appeals and Court of Special Appeals in Annapolis and Washington DC.