Trial judges have broad discretion as to whether criminal-defense attorneys may replay trial testimony via video during closing arguments, Maryland’s top court ruled Thursday in upholding a Baltimore police officer’s conviction for shooting an unarmed man. In its decision, the ...
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Maryland’s top court has ordered a young Guatemalan immigrant to be permitted to remain with his father in Baltimore while applying for special U.S. residency status and likely citizenship. The Court of Appeals on Friday cited “unrefuted” evidence that the ...
Tagged with: child neglect Guatemala immigration Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
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Maryland’s top court will once again have a full-time clerk to manage its docket, handle filings and swear in new attorneys, as well as sign their bar certificates. The Court of Appeals on Wednesday gave the job to Suzanne C. ...
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ANNAPOLIS — Attorneys for Maryland and for podcast star Adnan Syed battled Thursday before the state’s top court as it considers whether he was denied effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney chose not to telephone an alibi witness ...
Tagged with: Adnan Syed ineffective assistance of counsel Serial serial podcast sixth amendment
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A statutory requirement that prison guards’ disciplinary appeals to their commissioner be held “on the record” provides them no job protection when a mere technical glitch prevents the mandated recording, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled in giving the Baltimore City ...
Tagged with: Correctional Officers' Bill of Rights good faith exception
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A person who secretly records what becomes a self-damning telephone conversation cannot block it from being introduced into evidence by saying Maryland law prohibits the covert recording, the state’s top court unanimously ruled Tuesday in upholding the gun- and drug-possession ...
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The Court of Appeals disbarred a Montgomery County solo practitioner for failing to communicate with his client about his hourly rate, collecting unearned money, mismanaging an attorney trust account and lying to the court, bar counsel and his client, the ...
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A unanimous Maryland high court Thursday refused to reinstate a first-degree murder conviction in Baltimore, saying the judge violated the defendant’s due-process rights by reopening the trial – on his own motion – so the state could present damaging palm-print ...
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A convicted first-degree murderer will have the chance for a new trial after Maryland’s top court Tuesday unanimously ruled he deserves a hearing on his claim that evidence found after his conviction should have been presented before the jury. In ...
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The state has reached a settlement with the former operator of five nursing facilities and their owner after a lawsuit alleged the company engaged in unlawful patient discharge practices and submitted false claims to the state Medicaid program, Attorney General Brian ...
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