Severna Park attorney Jason E. Rheinstein was disbarred Friday by a unanimous Maryland Court of Appeals, which found that Rheinstein had concocted an untrue conspiracy theory that he used in a lawsuit against a private lending company in 2012. The ...
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ANNAPOLIS – A sharply divided Maryland high court ruled Friday that trial judges must ask prospective jurors – when requested by defense counsel – whether they can presume the defendant is innocent, require the prosecution to prove its case beyond ...
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ANNAPOLIS — Attorneys for a convicted human trafficker and for the state grappled at Maryland’s top court Friday with whether a person’s name can be placed on the state’s Sex Offender Registry for a crime against a child when the ...
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ANNAPOLIS — Police have probable cause to arrest someone for marijuana possession and to search him or her if they clearly smell the drug on the person – even though possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana is not ...
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Administrative law judges must defer to a police officer’s reasonable belief that the motorist behind the steering wheel during a traffic stop was driving the car when the alleged violation occurred moments earlier, Maryland’s top court has unanimously held in ...
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A divided Maryland high court last week reinstated a man’s first-degree felony murder conviction, saying his attorney’s failure to request a jury instruction on the defense of alibi did not affect the jurors’ guilty verdict — even though four people ...
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Maryland’s top court will review whether a man found not criminally responsible in the stabbing death of his former Dundalk landlord must head not to a Maryland psychiatric facility but back to a prison in Ohio, where he is serving ...
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Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday named white-collar defense attorney and former federal prosecutor Jonathan Biran to serve on Maryland’s top court. If confirmed by the state Senate, Biran – a shareholder at the Baltimore law firm Baker Donelson — would ...
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ANNAPOLIS — In a case centering on video of a police-involved shooting, Maryland’s top court on Thursday considered whether a lower court wrongfully overturned a jury’s civil verdict that a Baltimore police officer used excessive force by firing four shots ...
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Potomac attorney Kenneth Steven Kaufman was disbarred Friday by the Maryland Court of Appeals, which found he violated multiple rules of professional conduct by failing to communicate with a client. The violations included failing to inform his client of a ...
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