A divided Maryland high court ruled Tuesday that a man found not criminally responsible in the stabbing death of his former Dundalk landlord must head not to a state psychiatric facility but back to a prison in Ohio, where he ...
Tagged with: Interstate Agreement on Detainers mental health not criminally responsible suicide by cop
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An eyewitness pointing out a suspected killer in a photo array or lineup raises constitutional concerns that an identification by someone who knows the suspect does not, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Tuesday in saying a woman’s recognition of her ...
Tagged with: due process lineup photo array
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Maryland’s top court has suspended for 60 days a Baltimore family law practitioner who failed to communicate with her divorcing client, respond to discovery-of-information requests from the estranged husband and meet with the attorney for the couple’s young daughter. In ...
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Maryland’s top court has unanimously upheld the state’s remedy for Marylanders who had paid the state’s “piggyback” tax on money earned and taxed in other states, an assessment the U.S. Supreme Court later found unconstitutional in 2015. In its 7-0 ...
Tagged with: commerce clause piggyback tax
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In a case centering on video of a police-involved shooting, a divided Maryland high court Tuesday reinstated a jury’s civil verdict that a Baltimore officer used excessive force by firing four shots into a motorist who ran toward him during ...
Tagged with: excessive force fourth amendment police brutality video
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A construction contractor cannot be compelled to pay its share of the responsibility for the extensive fire damage caused to a building project after the developer had agreed to absolve the contractor of future liability, Maryland’s top court has ruled. ...
Tagged with: contractors developers uniform contribution among joint tortfeasors act
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Maryland’s top court Tuesday offered advice for employers and their insurers when settling workers’ compensation claims: Make sure the injured employees and their dependents are parties to the settlement lest the companies and underwriters face a subsequent claim from the ...
Tagged with: contract law settlement agreements worker's compensation
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Maryland’s top court will consider whether Baltimore’s tax on commercial billboard operators unconstitutionally infringes on their right to free speech in the advertisements and messages they post. The Court of Appeals this month agreed to hear Clear Channel Outdoor Inc.’s ...
Tagged with: billboards first amendment free speech Taxation
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Maryland’s top court has unanimously reinstated an attempted armed robbery conviction, saying the trial judge properly allowed the jury to hear damning evidence that the defendant “unfriended” from his Facebook page his alleged accomplice just hours after that person was ...
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A police officer’s failure to advise a Spanish-speaking motorist of his rights in his spoken language and give directions in his native tongue should have rendered his failed breath alcohol and field sobriety tests inadmissible at his drunk-driving trial, a ...
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