DWI HIT PARADE St. Mary’s County Public School Attorney Hires Sharp DUI Lawyer Lenny Stamm as Mouthpiece in Federal Court

DWI HIT PARADE St. Mary’s County Public School Attorney Hires Sharp DUI Lawyer Lenny Stamm as Mouthpiece in Federal Court

LEONARDTOWN, MD—Suja Varghese has found a great DUI lawyer to defend her in the United States District Court regarding her December 12, 2024, DUI arrest.

According to federal court records, Varghese, who lists her residence in Catonsville, Md., at the home owned by Baltimore County Police Detective Dana Kaczynski, as shown in Maryland land records, hired Greenbelt attorney Leonard Stamm of the law firm Goldstein & Stamm. An initial appearance was set for April 17, 2025, and Varghese asked to allow her attorney to appear in the case after initially filing to represent herself. A trial date is pending scheduling by the court.

The St. Mary’s School Superintendent, Scott Smith, has yet to comment on the arrest of the school system’s general counsel, who was arrested for DWI after she left a bar in Valley Lee and drove onto the Patuxent River Naval Air Station with two sailors. DWI arrests that take place on the Patuxent River NAS are tried in Federal Court, not in Maryland courts.

The lackadaisical Federal Court system didn’t list the arrest of Verghase until April 10, 2025, nearly four months after her arrest. A Freedom of Information Act request was required to verify that the public school system had been charged with driving while intoxicated on Dec. 12, 2024.

St. Mary’s School Board members have yet to respond to requests for comments. Another top staffer of the school system was arrested for DWI on a second offence. IT director David Howard was convicted in 2023.

Passing up local yokel Southern Maryland attorneys, Varghese tapped the veteran criminal defense lawyer Leonard Stamm, who has written the book on how to defend clients charged with driving while under the influence in Maryland. In 2008, Stamm wrote “Maryland DUI Law” and has since regularly updated it.

According to his firm’s website, “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 also spoken at and organized numerous continuing legal education seminars since 1986.”

Varghese’s choice of Lenny Stamm showed that the local DUI attorneys who regularly grease the skids for their clients with contributions of thousands of dollars to prosecutors and judges in local elections indicate that she may believe that her case requires an attorney with skills not available in the area.

Stamm represented a Montgomery County member of the House of Delegates who had been found guilty in District Court when charged with DUI. Appealing the case to the Circuit Court, Stamm provided a strong rebuttal to the prosecution, proving to the jury that Del. Herman L. Taylor II decided to park his Cadillac Escalade in a 7-Eleven store parking lot because he saw police officers at the location and figured it would be a safe place for him to take a nap after a late-night drive back from a convention hall in Prince George’s County. Taylor was awakened by officers who promptly believed him to be driving while impaired due to his vehicle still running.

The four jury members interviewed by Washington Post reporter Dan Morse said that the panel’s four-hour deliberation ended with their belief that the prosecutors failed to provide convincing evidence of impairment.

Leonard Stamm has been requested to comment on his client’s arrest, and any response will be added to this article. Stamm has filed a motion for discovery, shown below, to uncover all the details of his client’s arrest in an attempt to undermine the prosecution’s case by finding any holes, which, of course, is his job.