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Administrative law — Employment termination — State Personnel and Pensions Article The State Personnel and Pensions (“SPP”) Article establishes a detailed process by which non-temporary state employees in Maryland’s Executive Branch may be disciplined for misconduct. This process includes several ...

Contracts — Breach — Non-competition agreement Appellants are two substance abuse rehabilitation centers — By Grace, Inc. (“By Grace”) and I’m Still Standing By Grace, Inc. (“Still Standing”) — and Pamela Dukes, the chief executive officer of both entities. They ...

Real property — Foreclosure sale — Extinguishing of debt On November 14, 2002, Chander and Ashima Kant borrowed $115,000 from Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (the “Bank”) through a home equity line of credit (the “HELOC” or “Loan”). The Kants signed ...

Criminal procedure — Double jeopardy — Dual sovereignty doctrine Jeremy Ryan McGrady, appellant, contends that the Circuit Court for Caroline County erred in denying his “Motion to Correct Sentence.” Read the opinion

Criminal procedure — Appellate procedure — Belated appeal Jonathan Gregory Lindler appealed the denial, by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, of his motion for leave to file a belated appeal and his petition for a writ of habeas ...

Criminal procedure — Sentence modification — Substance abuse treatment In 2009, Richard L. Gadsden, appellant, entered a plea of guilty to first-degree rape in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. The court sentenced him to life imprisonment, with all but ...

Criminal procedure — Illegal sentence — Enhanced sentence A jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City convicted Antonio Gorham, appellant, of robbery and first-degree assault. At a sentencing hearing held on August 26, 2014, the court sentenced him to ...

Criminal procedure — Illegal sentence — Merger of voluntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment Jivon Brown, appellant, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City of voluntary manslaughter of Darryl Owens and reckless endangerment of C.B. Brown ...

Criminal procedure — Illegal sentence — Law of the case In 2003, a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County found appellant, James Davis, guilty of the first-degree assault of Adolf Cloud, robbery with a dangerous weapon of Adolf ...

Criminal procedure — Illegal sentence — Sentencing guidelines By indictments filed in the Circuit Court for Frederick County, Sheldon Duke White, appellant, was charged with 29 counts involving CDS and firearms. On June 4, 2019, he appeared in court with ...