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• Richard Arnold: In Maryland, if you are stopped and charged with driving under the influence/ driving while intoxicated (DUI / DWI), you have 10 days to file a request for administrative hearing, or else your license will automatically be suspended in 45 days. In the meanwhile, you will be driving under a temporary license; the DR-15 form that you will be presented with at the time of the stop contains other critical information that you should be aware of. There are many things that you can do to aid your defense in the short time you have available, so it is very important to contact a Maryland DUI / DWI defense attorney immediately if you are issued such a citation.
• Leonard Stamm: The first thing that someone arrested for drunk driving in Maryland needs to do (other than immediately schedule a consultation with a lawyer) is to request a hearing with the Office of Administrative Hearings.
• Robert Bonsib: CROSSING CENTER LANE JUSTIFIES TRAFFIC STOP           

  Dowdy v. State, 144 Md.App. 325, 798 A.2d 1 (2002).   A trooper noticed Dowdyıs vehicle continuously slowly drift from side to side in lane two of the highway and observed that the car was not being driven in a straight line.  On two occasions the vehicleıs tires crossed the lane markings into lane one.  The second cross-over occurred 1Ž2 mile after the first and during that time one fourth of the vehicle crossed over the line.  The trooper testified he stopped the vehicle because he believed the operator was intoxicated.  Dowdy failed sobriety tests and was arrested for DWI. A search incident to the arrest resulted in the recovery of controlled substances. 

            & nbsp; The CSA held that a traffic stop for violation of 21-309 was justified under the facts of this case and distinguished this case from Rowe finding that the conduct of Dowdy created the type of potential danger to other drivers that the COA found absent in Rowe.