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The attorney for a convicted killer of two Montgomery County teenagers on the eve of their high school graduation urged Maryland’s top court Thursday to overturn the first-degree murder conviction, saying the state’s failure to disclose the investigators’ interview with ...

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North Carolina, yes. Pennsylvania, yes. Wisconsin, no. That’s how the Supreme Court has answered questions in recent days about an extended timeline for receiving and counting ballots in those states.

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Maryland’s attorney general is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn the state high court’s decision that being placed on the sex offender registry is “punishment” that a judge must order and not a mere listing of offenders ...

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Workers over age 50 who are exposed to loud noises on the job emerged victorious at Maryland’s top court Monday as the judges ruled that the date for calculating hearing loss for workers’ compensation is their date of retirement and ...

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Marrying the prosecution’s star witness to prevent him or her from testifying against you can constitute witness tampering or obstruction of justice, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Monday in what prosecutors called an accused murderer’s effort to invoke spousal privilege ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has shown interest in hearing a former Maryland Natural Resources Police officer’s claims he was fired in retaliation for exercising his constitutional right to speak in criticizing an MNRP captain’s behavior and denied his statutory right ...

Tagged with: first amendment Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act Maryland Department of Natural Resources Natural Resources Police retaliation

A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a judge’s order that a Bethesda couple pay nearly $1 million in civil penalties and interest to the U.S. government for their “willful” failure to disclose they had money in a foreign bank account. ...

Tagged with: bank secrecy act failure to disclose IRS Swiss bank account

Attorneys seeking fee awards in dismissed cases in the U.S. District Court for Maryland should pay close attention to whether the court included a separate document setting out the dismissal order as a “judgment,” a federal appeals court indicated this ...

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In an appeal pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, criminal defense attorneys from outside the state have assailed Maryland’s “rigid” rule enabling prosecutors to prosecute cold cases so long as the prosecution’s delay in securing an indictment was not designed to give the state a tactical advantage over the defendant.

Tagged with: cold-case due process prosecutorial misconduct Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined Maryland Reclamation Associates Inc.’s request that the justices review and reinstate a $45 million jury award in a litigation battle MRA has waged against Harford County for nearly 30 years over the company’s ...

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