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The family of a young woman killed in 1999 has appealed a Baltimore judge’s order vacating the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, who was imprisoned for decades for Hae Min Lee’s death. In papers filed Friday with the Court of ...

Tagged with: Adnan Syed hae min lee victims' rights

A Maryland appeals court Wednesday upheld the first-degree murder conviction of a white man who stabbed to death a Black U.S. Army 2nd lieutenant at the University of Maryland five years ago, saying the jury was validly permitted to hear ...

Tagged with: due process first amendment hate crime neo-Nazi racist meme Richard Collins III Sean Urbanski

Law enforcement officers were constitutionally bound to honor a suspected child pornographer’s withdrawal of his consent to their pending warrantless search of his computer even though seven days had passed and they had already copied his hard drive, Maryland’s second-highest ...

Tagged with: computer search consent to search fourth amendment motion to suppress evidence Riley v. California

A federal appeals court panel appears poised to strike down Maryland’s ban on semiautomatic assault-style weapons as unconstitutional in light of a recent Supreme Court decision and based on the argument that the firearms are commonly used by law-abiding citizens ...

Tagged with: assault-style weapons Bianchi v. Frosh Bruen firearm safety act gun rights guns Second Amendment

Change is coming to the Maryland Judiciary on Dec. 14.

Tagged with: Appellate Court of Maryland Court of Special Appeals maryland court of appeals Supreme Court of Maryland

An adult cannot be deemed a child's 'de facto parent' unless both legal parents consent – regardless of how neglectful they might have been, appeals court says.

Tagged with: child custody de facto parenthood exceptional circumstances neglect

Maryland’s top court will consider whether the limit on damages in personal injury lawsuits against the state passes constitutional muster when the injured plaintiff’s costs far exceed the statutory cap.

Tagged with: damages cap maryland constitution maryland declaration of rights Maryland Tort Claims Act torts

Maryland’s top court will consider whether a defendant’s constitutional right to counsel is violated by a judge’s order that he or she refrain from speaking to his or her attorney during an overnight trial recess.

Tagged with: ineffective assistance of counsel Right to counsel sixth amendment

Maryland’s top court will consider whether the state’s ban on gun possession by someone sentenced to more than two years in prison for a nonviolent common law crime violates the Second Amendment.

Tagged with: child support common law criminal contempt gun control gun possession guns Second Amendment

Companies that lost business during the pandemic await a Maryland high court decision on whether their financial hit was insured as “physical damage."

Tagged with: COVID-19 insurance coverage insurance law maryland court of appeals pandemic physical damage U.S. Supreme Court