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Another mistrial declared in warrantless-GPS case

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 4, 2013
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a D.C. nightclub owner charged with drug conspiracy — 2 ½ years after his previous conviction was tossed out because police used a global positioning device to track him without a warrant. U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle declared the mistrial [...]


Md. authorities try to serve warrant on elusive teacher

BY: The Capital of Annapolis
POSTED: February 6, 2013
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GLEN BURNIE — Anne Arundel County authorities have been trying for three months to serve a warrant on a Glen Burnie teacher accused of stealing from a community charity. Police encountered Pamela Fowler last month when she was issued 12 traffic citations. But for some reason, the warrant wasn’t detected. The officer didn’t realize sheriff’s [...]


Prince George’s jury awards $5.6M in warrant snafu (access required)

BY: Beth Moszkowicz
POSTED: October 28, 2012
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DJ Christopher Harper sued after he missed 10 appearances and lost his job as a bank customer service representative because he was jailed on an erroneous warrant.

A jury has awarded damages of $5.6 million to a disc jockey who was arrested and jailed in 2009 after the Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Department mistakenly entered a warrant against him into the National Criminal Information System database. The jury reached its verdict Thursday in Prince George’s County Circuit Court. It deliberated for roughly [...]


Court to weigh lawyers’ rights to driving records (access required)

BY: Staff and Wire Reports
POSTED: September 25, 2012
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The Supreme Court has stepped into a dispute over whether lawyers can obtain personal information from driver license records to recruit clients for lawsuits, despite a federal privacy law intended to shield motor vehicle records.


Infringer hauled back from Belize to face civil contempt charges (access required)

BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: August 13, 2012
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After years of destroying evidence and ignoring court orders in a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit, Mark T. Pappas, CEO of Creative Pipe Inc., was arrested at his beachfront condo in Central America …


Crofton man calling himself ‘a joker’ threatened shooting

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: July 27, 2012
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PALMER PARK — Calling himself “a joker,” a Maryland man with an arsenal of guns threatened to shoot up a business he was being fired from, and was wearing a T-shirt that said “Guns don’t kill people. I do” when police confronted him, authorities said Friday. The 28-year-old man, identified in a search warrant as [...]


Supreme Court: Can police detain without warrant?

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: June 4, 2012
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether police can follow and detain a suspect while they wait for a search warrant, even after the suspect leaves the area that the police want to search. The high court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from Chunon Bailey, who was sentenced to 30 years in [...]


Federal prosecutors shut down sports betting website Bodog.com (access required)

BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: February 28, 2012
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Federal prosecutors in Baltimore on Tuesday unsealed an indictment against online sports betting site Bodog.com and its principals, charging them with conspiracy to launder money and running an illegal sports gambling business. Prosecutors shut down the website Bodog.com Monday prior to the unsealing of the warrant. Prosecutors say Bodog has paid out more than $100 [...]


Justices seem troubled by breadth of warrant in domestic violence case (access required)

BY: Lawyers USA
POSTED: December 5, 2011
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court grappled Monday with whether qualified immunity protects police who conduct a search based on a facially valid warrant that is later invalidated because it was overbroad and misstated pertinent information. At stake is Augusta Millender’s right to sue Los Angeles County police officers who executed a search warrant on her [...]


Justices troubled by GPS tracking case

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: November 8, 2011
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court invoked visions of an all-seeing Big Brother and satellites watching us from above. Then things got personal Tuesday when the justices were told police could slap GPS devices on their cars and track their movements, without asking a judge for advance approval. The occasion for all the talk about intrusive [...]


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