Delving into the issue of domestic violence, Maryland’s top court has ruled that abuse in prior relationships can be evidence of Battered Spouse Syndrome without its victims having to first show they were repeatedly abused by the significant other they ...
Tagged with: battered-spouse syndrome self-defense voluntary manslaughter
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Maryland’s top court has unanimously disbarred a Laurel attorney who accepted a $2,500 fee and drafted a defective counter-complaint before abandoning his client and keeping the money. Wortham David Davenport, who joined the Maryland bar in 1991, also failed to ...
Tagged with: attorney discipline
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A unanimous Maryland high court has upheld a man’s first-degree murder conviction in the killing of two Montgomery County teenagers on the eve of their high school graduation, saying the prosecution’s failure to disclose the investigators’ interview with a witness’s ...
Tagged with: Brady v. Maryland first-degree murder Northwest High School
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Maryland juries may not acquit a defendant they believe to be guilty because they regard the criminal law to be unjust or because they want to “send a message” about a broader societal issue, the state’s top court said Friday ...
Tagged with: jury nullification
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Maryland’s top court has left unresolved whether state transit officers violate the constitutional rights of light-rail passengers by putting on a show of force in conducting a sweep of the train cars to ensure fares were paid. The Court of ...
Tagged with: fourth amendment transit police unreasonable seizure
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Maryland’s top court will consider whether a Prince George’s County town illegally discriminated against a Palestinian-American towing company owner in awarding a towing contract. The Court of Appeals on Wednesday agreed to hear Riverdale Park’s appeal of a lower court’s ...
Tagged with: business judgment rule national origin bias Palestinian-American pretext towing companies
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Maryland’s top court Wednesday upheld the second-degree murder conviction of a jailhouse rap singer who argued in vain that his violent lyrics should not have been admissible at trial despite their eerie similarity to the details of the slaying. In ...
Tagged with: artistic expression criminal relevance evidence murder probative evidence rap music
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Maryland’s top court has unanimously disbarred a Baltimore attorney it described as “a one-man misconduct wave” who threatened to “blow up” a physical therapy facility whose owner had filed an ethics complaint against him. Besides the violent threat, Darryl Russel ...
Tagged with: attorney discipline Disbarment
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A divided Maryland high court has suspended for at least one year an immigration attorney who failed to appear at a status hearing for an immigrant couple and to timely file a visa extension application for another immigrant, placing these ...
Tagged with: attorney discipline immigration law
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A Prince George’s County judge must review in chambers the private mental health records of a dead child care worker to determine what if any portion is relevant to a Massachusetts lawsuit alleging his church-affiliated employer’s negligence enabled him to ...
Tagged with: Catholic Church child abuse doctor-patient privilege
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