Another mistrial declared in warrantless-GPS case
BY: Associated Press 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 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
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Court to weigh lawyers’ rights to driving records
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Infringer hauled back from Belize to face civil contempt charges
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Crofton man calling himself ‘a joker’ threatened shooting
BY: Associated Press 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 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
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Justices seem troubled by breadth of warrant in domestic violence case
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Justices troubled by GPS tracking case
BY: Associated Press 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 [...] |






