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The aerial surveillance spy plane flying over Baltimore was much in the news in 2016. Earlier this summer, a spy plane program was considered – for a time – by the mayor and police force of Miami-Dade, Florida. But the ...

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Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis and Gov. Larry Hogan have been using statistics to blame the city’s judges for the city’s crime problem. When one digs into the data on which the statistics are based, though, as our Editorial Board ...

The ACLU of Maryland recently filed suits challenging the practices in Baltimore city and in Salisbury of prohibiting plaintiffs in police misconduct lawsuits from speaking critically of police as a condition of receiving settlements. First Amendment issues thus far have ...

A third questionable body camera video has been disclosed and criticized by Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby. This is the third body camera video that has surfaced in less than a month in which the events recorded on ...

For nearly a century-and-a-half, the larger-than-life bronze statue of Roger Brooke Taney, a Calvert County native who was the country’s chief justice longer than all but one who held the office, has sat on a pedestal in solemn dignity outside ...

Gov. Larry Hogan, frustrated with the spiraling violence in Baltimore city, has called publicly for a meeting with the criminal justice enforcement community, including the city’s judges. While it is a truism that judges have a critical role in seeing that justice is ...

Early in discussions about the proposed one-year mandatory minimum prison term for anyone carrying a handgun illegally in Baltimore city, Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke made this telling observation: “I’m concerned about people, for example, who are carrying illegal guns to protect ...

If throwing into jail for a year everyone convicted of illegally possessing a handgun could bring peace to Baltimore’s streets, we might support the bill now before the City Council calling for that mandatory penalty. But we don’t think that’s ...

Although it has been approximately one year since retired Baltimore City Circuit Judge Gale Rasin ordered officials from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to show cause why they should not be held in contempt for not placing mentally ...

As a board of Maryland lawyers, we are proud to congratulate Lydia E. Lawless upon her appointment as Bar Counsel for the Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland. In our opinion, the Commission and the Court of Appeals made a wise ...