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The Maryland Court of Appeals will weigh the level of specificity constitutionally required in a warrant to search a person’s cellphone.

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Maryland’s top court agreed to hear the appeal of a teen convicted of felony murder and sentenced to life in prison for running into and killing a Baltimore County police officer.

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Gov. Larry Hogan said an initial slate of four applicants did not satisfy the breadth of “diversity and outreach” he seeks on the bench of Maryland's top court.

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Attorneys for public school parents and the Howard County Board of Education battled before Maryland’s top court Tuesday over the constitutionality of having high school students serve as voting members of school boards and having nonvoting-age pupils elect those members. ...

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Maryland’s top court Monday grappled with whether hourly construction workers must be compensated for the time they spend waiting and being shuttled between an off-site parking lot and the construction site, as instructed by their employer. The workers’ counsel argued ...

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A Maryland appeals court upheld a man’s second-degree murder conviction in the killings of two Montgomery County teenagers on the eve of their high-school graduation.

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Prince George’s County violated Victory Temple’s religious freedom when it denied the evangelical Christian church’s application to build a sanctuary in Bowie for its more than 2,000 congregants, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

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A U.S. appeals court will withhold its consideration of a constitutional challenge to Maryland’s licensing requirement for would-be handgun purchasers until the Supreme Court rules.

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The Supreme Court declined to consider if a prosecutor was obligated to tell the jury or merely defense counsel that the state’s star witness falsely testified.

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Saying he got bad legal advice, a Mexican national living in Maryland urges justices to let him withdraw his no-contest plea to a sex offense.

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