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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Maryland prosecutors need not tell defendants about the past dishonesty of the state’s witnesses before a guilty plea is entered, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Friday in upholding the drug possession conviction of a man whose main accuser had a ...
Tagged with: Brady disclosure Brady v. Maryland Gun trace task force United States v. Ruiz
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Baltimore’s tax on commercial billboard operators unconstitutionally infringes on their right to free speech in the advertisements and messages they post, an attorney for the city’s leading billboard owner told a skeptical Maryland high court Friday. Billboards are “a venerable ...
Tagged with: billboards chilling effect first amendment Taxes
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The Maryland Court of Appeals has told a trial court to review whether the long-accepted courtroom science linking fatal bullets to specific guns in homicide cases withstands the high court’s recently adopted standard that permits emerging and contrary scientific theories ...
Tagged with: ballistics Daubert Frye-Reed toolmark
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The attorney for a convicted killer of two Montgomery County teenagers on the eve of their high school graduation urged Maryland’s top court Thursday to overturn the first-degree murder conviction, saying the state’s failure to disclose the investigators’ interview with ...
Tagged with: Brady v. Maryland first-degree murder Northwest High School
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Workers over age 50 who are exposed to loud noises on the job emerged victorious at Maryland’s top court Monday as the judges ruled that the date for calculating hearing loss for workers’ compensation is their date of retirement and ...
Tagged with: hearing loss older workers worker's compensation
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Marrying the prosecution’s star witness to prevent him or her from testifying against you can constitute witness tampering or obstruction of justice, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Monday in what prosecutors called an accused murderer’s effort to invoke spousal privilege ...
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A defense attorney and a lawyer for the state battled last week before Maryland’s top court over whether the Constitution requires prosecutors to tell defendants about the past dishonesty of the state’s witness before a guilty plea is entered. Assistant ...
Tagged with: Brady disclosure Brady v. Maryland Gun trace task force United States v. Ruiz
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Delving into the issue of domestic violence, Maryland’s top court Thursday grappled with whether a judge properly instructed a jury to determine first if a woman suffered from Battered Spouse Syndrome before deciding if she killed her boyfriend in self-defense. ...
Tagged with: battered-spouse syndrome Imperfect self-defense self-defense voluntary manslaughter
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Two Maryland high court judges have taken the unusual step of sharply criticizing their colleagues for declining to reconsider their decision last month that permits judges to admit into evidence scientific conclusions based on emerging theories that have been peer-reviewed ...
Tagged with: Daubert Frye-Reed motion to reconsider
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