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Criminal procedure — Double jeopardy — Separate offenses This interlocutory appeal arises from a pending prosecution of Lionel Obrian Lee, appellant, in the Circuit Court for Charles County, on charges of child sexual abuse and third degree sexual offenses. Read ...

Criminal procedure — Motion to suppress evidence — Marijuana Dominic Whitehead, appellant, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City of possession of cocaine, distribution of cocaine, and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. When he ...

Criminal procedure — Motion to suppress evidence — Search of person In response to an anonymous tip, Baltimore City police officers recovered a gun from appellant John Faulkner’s person, and arrested him. After unsuccessfully moving to suppress the gun as ...

Contracts — Unjust enrichment — Restitution Orange Production Solutions, LLC (“OPS”), brought an action against Fair Hill International, Inc. (“Fair Hill”), seeking compensation for logistical work that it performed at an equestrian competition hosted by Fair Hill. After a bench ...

Real property — Sale of dilapidated property — Exceptions The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (the “City”) petitioned the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City to appoint a receiver to sell a dilapidated property owned by The Rodney ...

Criminal procedure — Jury instruction — Flight A trail of blood through the row house at 4006 Grantley Road in Baltimore, Maryland led police to the kitchen where they found sixty-nine-year-old James Dews dead on the floor from 33 stabbing ...

Criminal procedure — Voir dire — Burden of proof Appellant, Joseph Patrick Soule, was convicted in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County of second-degree murder and sentenced to thirty years’ incarceration. On appeal before this Court, we affirmed his ...

Torts — Voir dire — Familiarity with site Rosemary Smith, appellant, filed suit in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County against Rollins Real Estate Management Co., Inc., appellee, and two other defendants, seeking damages for personal injuries sustained when she ...

Legislative enactment — Reasonable basis — Permit parking If this case had been tried before a court of public opinion (such as Robespierre’s Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution in 1793–94), there may have been a chance that ...

Torts — Maryland Tort Claims Act — Statute of limitations On September 27, 2013, Colin Hudgins suffered serious injuries from a physical altercation with another juvenile while he waited in a holding cell in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel ...