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Maryland’s top court will hear the appeal of a man who has spent more than 30 years in prison for a Baltimore murder he says he did not commit.

Tagged with: actual innocence ballistics evidence eyewitness testimony Joseph Kopera witness tampering

Sheriffs may continue to require buyers of homes at tax sales to pay for a mover to transport the personal property of those whose houses they bought, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Tuesday.

Tagged with: movers property tax sheriff's tax delinquency tax sales Thornton Mellon

A Maryland appeals court has shot down one portion of the state's wear and carry law following a Supreme Court ruling on a New York case last month.

Tagged with: Maryland Court of Special Appeals maryland gun laws

Maryland’s top court will weigh whether a Black man’s speedy departure upon seeing Baltimore police in a high-crime area gives officers reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to stop him.

Tagged with: fourth amendment Freddie Gray George Floyd Gun trace task force Illinois v. Wardlow maryland constitution police police brutality racial profiling reasonable suspicion

Attention criminal defense attorneys: You do not lose your right to appeal the denial of a pretrial motion to suppress evidence if you decline to object to the introduction of that evidence at trial. In a unanimous decision, Maryland’s top ...

Tagged with: criminal defense evidence motion to suppress trial procedure

A former tenant that broke its lease at the Montgomery Park office building in Baltimore remains on the hook for nearly $10 million after a federal appeals court held Tuesday that the landlord made “commercially reasonable” but unsuccessful efforts to ...

Tagged with: Baltimore commercial office space duty to mitigation landlord tenant Montgomery Park

A Maryland statute requiring bars in a predominantly Black area of Baltimore to open later and close earlier than most others in the city is not unconstitutional, the state’s second-highest court ruled.

Tagged with: alcohol regulation bars equal protection race discrimination violent crime

The trustees of the Maryland Bar’s Client Protection Fund validly rejected a man’s request to be reimbursed for the $2.6 million a since-convicted and disbarred attorney bilked from the escrow account the lawyer had managed for him, the state’s second ...

Tagged with: attorney discipline Client Protection Fund embezzlement fiduciary duty

Maryland’s ban on gun possession by someone sentenced to more than two years in prison for a nonviolent crime does not violate the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, the state’s second-highest court ruled Wednesday. In its reported decision, ...

Tagged with: child support criminal contempt gun control law abiding Second Amendment

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday sent a constitutional challenge to Maryland’s ban on semiautomatic assault-style weapons back to a lower court with instructions that it apply the justices’ broad interpretation of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear ...

Tagged with: assault weapons ban Bianchi v. Frosh firearm safety act gun rights Kolbe v. Hogan New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen Second Amendment