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WikiLeaks hearing focuses on classified evidence

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 21, 2013
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FORT MEADE — The Army private who gave more than 700,000 secret U.S. documents to WikiLeaks is returning to Fort Meade for the last scheduled hearing before his military trial next month. The pretrial hearing Tuesday for Pfc. Bradley Manning concerns classified material that would be used as evidence during the trial starting June 3. [...]


Court to decide if co-tenant can consent to search after suspect’s objection (access required)

BY: Lawyers USA
POSTED: May 20, 2013
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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a tenant who previously objected to a warrantless search of an apartment must be personally present and objecting to prevent a search when police officers later ask a co-tenant for consent to search.


Attorney fees OK’d for untimely Vaccine Act claims (access required)

BY: Lawyers USA
POSTED: May 20, 2013
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A vaccine injury victim whose claim is time-barred under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act can still recover attorney fees because the claim was reasonable and made in good faith, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.


Details, details: Waiver of jury trial must be on record (access required)

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: May 20, 2013
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Trial judges beware: Any conviction you hand down at a bench trial will be overturned if you fail to state on the record that the defendant’s waiver of the constitutional right to a jury trial was knowing and voluntary.


Double jeopardy bars retrial, top court holds (access required)

BY: Beth Moszkowicz
POSTED: May 20, 2013
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A Montgomery County judge’s premature declaration of a mistrial means that a Derwood man cannot be retried for several crimes, the state’s highest court has held.


Police officer sentenced for misconduct

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 20, 2013
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A former Baltimore City police officer will serve three years probation for providing false information in order to secure a search and seizure warrant. Dennis Workley was sentenced Monday for misconduct in office. He was given a one year prison sentence, but the judge suspended that sentence and gave him three years of supervised probation. [...]


Harford County deputy pleads guilty to bribery

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 20, 2013
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BEL AIR — A Harford County Sheriff’s Office deputy has resigned after pleading guilty to accepting payments in exchange for providing unauthorized access to police databases. The Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office says 30-year-old Todd E. Johnson pleaded guilty Monday to bribery. As part of his plea, he resigned from the Sheriff’s Office. Harford County [...]


Top court puts piggyback tax ruling on hold (access required)

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: May 19, 2013
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Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler will likely urge the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a state law that bars Maryland residents from deducting, from city or county taxes, the tax they pay to other states when they earn money there.


Suit over fatal shooting by undercover officer settles for $100K (access required)

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: May 19, 2013
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The family of a man shot and killed by an undercover Baltimore police officer in 2009 will receive $100,000 from the city in settlement of a lawsuit that sought 200 times that amount.


Asylum restored to man who grabbed officer’s hand (access required)

BY: Barbara Grzincic
POSTED: May 19, 2013
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An Afghan refugee can stay in this country despite pleading guilty to second-degree assault on a Montgomery County police officer who was processing his arrest for driving under the influence, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held.


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