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Nolle prosequi is a Latin phrase which means “to no longer prosecute” or “unwilling to pursue.” Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby has recently announced the state’s attorney’s office will no longer prosecute individuals arrested for possession of marijuana in ...

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District Court Judge Michael Studdard released Philip West on $100,000 bail. Mr. West was charged with fatally shooting a man in a Fells Point Bar last December 21, 2018.  Mr. West surrendered on January 14 and was initially held without ...

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Here we go again. The General Assembly has before it a bill that  would allow the Baltimore City Council to establish open primary elections or “ranked choice” voting for primary and general elections. The measure is sponsored by Del. Brooke Lierman (D), ...

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Acting Baltimore Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle’s Dec. 14 and 17 opinion piece published by The Sun and republished by Gov. Larry Hogan was highly critical of Baltimore City Circuit Court judges for imposing light sentences on violent criminals; Tuggle continues ...

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Maryland is one of but five United States jurisdictions that adhere to the ancient rule that contributory negligence is an absolute bar to a tort recovery for negligence. The rule has had several challenges in the Court of Appeals of ...

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Our fractious political climate became more so last week in a way that threatens to erode respect for the judiciary and perhaps the law itself. Once again, President Trump fired a word salvo at a jurist whose decision he didn’t ...

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Say what you will about Baltimore, but don’t omit that it is a city in severe crisis. Crime, drug traffic and, in particular, shootings, violence and homicides are destroying this city. This is not to say that there are not ...

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“[T]he core principle of republican government” is “that the voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around.” Ariz. State Legislature v. Ariz. Independent Redistricting Comm., 135 S. Ct. 2652, 2677 (2015). This core principle, unfortunately, is unattainable as ...

This Thanksgiving week is when we celebrate the immigrants who came to New England before the nation’s founding in a holiday that President Lincoln established in 1863 to bring the country together in the midst of the Civil War.  Today ...

Nov. 13, 2018, marks the third anniversary celebration of the Baltimore City Veterans Treatment Court, and many of you are probably unaware of its existence. While we celebrate this Veterans Day let’s not only thank our veterans but also the ...