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Baltimore struggles with appalling levels of crime and poverty, huge problems requiring multi-pronged solutions, through both civil and criminal law. Because wrongful eviction can cascade into other social ills – homelessness, depression, kids’ displacement from schools – we should provide ...

The federal criminal trial of former Baltimore Gun Trace Task Squad members has revealed some of the most shocking organized criminal behavior that could be alleged against police officers. Two of the officers charged are on trial; the balance of ...

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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded recently a 2014 memorandum regarding allocation of the Department of Justice’s resources in the prosecution of federal crimes, reverting to the well-established principles that govern all federal prosecutions set forth originally by one of ...

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh fired Police Commissioner Kevin Davis last Friday morning, replacing him with Deputy Commissioner Darryl D. De Sousa, a veteran BPD officer. Davis simply could not get the job done and all the spin he could muster ...

In 2018, Maryland legislators will attempt to complete unfinished business from 2017 to promote “a successful but consumer-friendly medical cannabis industry in the State to provide patients with affordable access to medical cannabis” and promote participation by “small, minority, and ...

Although body attachments are identified with the Dickensian concept of debtors’ prisons, the process to obtain them is still legal. In Maryland, creditors can use the body attachment process to compel payments from a judgment debtor using this civil arrest ...

A judicial vacancy was created earlier this year when Washington County Circuit Judge Kenneth Long Jr. reached the mandatory retirement age. Gov. Larry Hogan recently appointed Del. Brett Wilson, R-Washington, to the bench. The vacancy was advertised, and applicants wishing ...

David Boies has had an illustrious legal career, representing, unsuccessfully, Al Gore before the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore and, on the winning side in the high court, the same-sex plaintiffs seeking a constitutional right to wed. Now, at ...

From its invocation in the headline of unsheared “sheep” to the description in its final sentence of Baltimore as a “lawless enclave,” the Dec. 8 work product of The Daily Record’s esteemed Editorial Advisory Board grossly deviated from the board’s ...

Baltimore is a very dangerous city. Mayor Catherine Pugh recently said homicides and violent crimes against people are out of control. There is no sense blaming the police, the Judiciary, the mayor the schools, or any other institution because the blame ...