Philip H. Armstrong - Rockville, MD

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia, 1973
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Yale University, 1968
    B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Member

Past Positions

• Law Clerk to the Honorable John F. McAuliffe, Circuit Court for Montgomery County, 1973-1974
• Senior Assistant State's Attorney, Montgomery County, Maryland, 1974-1978

Classes and Seminars

• Guest Speaker, Maryland State Bar Association Mid-Winter Meeting (Costa Rica), "Maryland Criminal Law", 2013
  
• Guest Speaker--"Witness Cross Examination"--Montgomery County, Maryland Bar Association, Criminal Defense section meeting: 2010--2013

Representative Cases

• William Fagan v. State of MD (trial counsel), 110 MD App. 228, 676 A2d 1009 (1996)
• Darone Derricott v. State of Maryland, 327 MD 582, 611 A2d 592 (1992)
• Donald Lewis v. State of Maryland, 71 MD App. 402, 526 A. 2d 66 (1987)
• Greg Williams v. State, (2011)

Published Works

Articles

• Editor, Georgetown Law Journal, 1972-1973
  

Bar Admissions

• Maryland, 1973
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1980
• U.S. District Court District of Maryland, 1979
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1980

Other Affiliations

• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Member)
• Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys Association, 1984 - Present (Member, Board of Directors)
• Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys Association (Vice-President, 1988-1990)
• Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys Association (President-Elect, 1990-1991)
• Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys Association (President, 1991)