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When the Baltimore City Courthouse, now the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse, opened in 1900, the frieze in the Supreme Bench Courtroom, now Room 600, included the names of 24 preeminent Maryland judges and lawyers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth ...

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Violent crime is out of control in Baltimore. The homicide rate is above 300 for the seventh year running, and Gov. Larry Hogan is frustrated that no one has been able to stop the murders. A couple of weeks ago ...

More than 30  years ago, under the leadership and support of then Maryland Chief Judge Robert Murphy, the Maryland Judiciary and the Bar of Maryland collaborated on an examination of the status of women in the legal profession and, more ...

Consolidation of the Maryland circuit courts into a single circuit court funded by the state and centrally administered is not a new idea; it is time to re-examine this idea. In 1991 Chief Judge Robert C. Murphy testified before the ...

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On Oct. 25, Montgomery County became the 22nd Maryland jurisdiction to implement Maryland Electronic Courts filing in its Circuit and District Courts. MDEC filing began in Anne Arundel County in 2014 and by 2019 all Maryland jurisdictions other than Montgomery ...

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In April 2021, this board applauded the General Assembly’s passage of SB 202, a bill that would remove the governor from the parole process for those sentenced to life imprisonment, and hoped that Gov. Larry Hogan would not veto the ...

In its recent decision regarding Baltimore City’s State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s opposition to releasing the names of compromised Baltimore City police officers,  the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ruled that Mosby must release the list of police officers whom she ...

During its last session, the Maryland General Assembly passed a landmark bill, the Juvenile Restoration Act. This law now allows juveniles who were charged as adults and have been imprisoned for at least 20 years to file a motion to ...

The performance review of Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming has been ongoing for many months. It started in July, with a completion target of September or October. The task remains incomplete. The end of October is upon us. Given ...

Gov. Larry Hogan has the opportunity next year to place two more judges on Maryland’s Court of Appeals.  Judge Robert N. McDonald will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 on Feb. 23, and Chief Judge Joseph M. Getty will ...