WikiLeaks hearing focuses on classified evidence

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 21, 2013
Tags: crime, evidence, Law, legal news, Pfc. Bradley Manning, trial, wikileaks

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

BY: Lawyers USA
POSTED: May 20, 2013
Tags: breaking news, georgia v. randolph, Law, legal news, Supreme Court, warrant

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

BY: Lawyers USA
POSTED: May 20, 2013
Tags: breaking news, Law, legal news, Supreme Court, vaccine act

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

BY: Steve Lash
POSTED: May 20, 2013
Tags: bench trial, Court of Appeals, judge clayton greene, jury trial, Law, legal news, maryland, ruling, waiver

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

BY: Beth Moszkowicz
POSTED: May 20, 2013
Tags: court of special appeals, double jeapordy, Law, legal news, Montgomery County, sean fennell

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
Tags: baltimore city, crime, dennis workley, false information, Law, legal news, maryland, misconduct, police officer, warrant

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
Tags: bribery, crime, harford county, Law, legal news, maryland, sheriff's office

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 [...]