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Criminal law — Sufficiency of the evidence — Second-degree sexual offense On the night of March 18, 2016, two Howard County police officers responded to a 9-1-1 distress call from a woman—later identified as the victim, Ms. C.—in a mobile ...

Administrative law — Temporal variance — Substantial evidence Erika Garrett, together with ten like-minded individuals and two community associations, has appealed from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County, the Honorable Ronald A. Silkworth presiding, affirming a ...

Criminal procedure — Error coram nobis — Knowing and voluntary plea In 2010, appellant Franklin Enang (“Enang”) pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Now facing deportation as a result of the conviction, Enang seeks coram nobis relief on the ...

Criminal procedure — Waiver of jury trial — Knowing On June 26, 2017, at a bench trial in the Circuit Court for Dorchester County, Timothy Moxey, appellant, was found guilty of sexual abuse of a minor and sex abuse of ...

Criminal procedure — Jury instruction — Reasonable doubt In 1995, a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County convicted James Finneyfrock, appellant, of the first-degree murder of his parents, and the court thereafter imposed two concurrent sentences of life ...

Criminal procedure — Motion to suppress evidence — Lack of search warrant Appellant, Christopher Jones, was convicted in 2017 by a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County of carrying a handgun, using a handgun in the commission ...

Criminal procedure — Prosecution witness — Competency On March 22, 2009, James Faulcon, the victim, was shot and killed while sitting in his car. After a subsequent investigation, Edward Allen Harris, appellant, was indicted for first degree murder and other ...

Contracts — Breach — Nonperformance On September 19, 2011, appellant/cross-appellee, Maryland Land Consulting, LLC (MLC), and appellee/cross-appellant, Loyal Order of Moose, Lodge #1456 (Moose), entered into a contract for the sale of land located in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County. ...

Criminal procedure — Error coram nobis — Ineffective assistance of counsel This appeal arises from the denial of a petition for a writ of error coram nobis filed in the Circuit Court for Cecil County by appellant, Daniel Fields. In ...

Real property — Plugged drain pipe —  Relevance of testimony Appellant (Plaintiff below), Michael Scott, challenges essentially the testimony of Appellee (Defendant below), Glenn Ives, who testified during the defense case-in-chief regarding his on-the-eve of trial discovery of an obstruction ...