Maryland’s top court has declined to reinstate the murder conviction of a man accused of clubbing his girlfriend’s husband to death, saying a mistrial should have been declared when testimony that implicated only the woman was erroneously introduced at the ...
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Maryland’s public defenders are asking the Court of Appeals to immediately reduce the number of youths in juvenile jails and prisons in light of the coronavirus pandemic. “This petition seeks extraordinary relief for extraordinary circumstances,” begins the petitioners’ brief, filed ...
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A sharply divided Maryland high court ruled Tuesday that a convict’s placement on the Sex Offender Registry qualifies as “punishment” for a sex offense, meaning that all elements of the crime required for placement – such as the victim’s age ...
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Maryland’s top court will consider whether a judge’s television crime drama-inspired jury instruction that prosecutors need not present forensic evidence to prove guilt was a harmless mistake, given that the victim’s compelling testimony left jurors with no reasonable doubt that the defendant had robbed and assaulted her.
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Maryland’s top court will consider whether a trial judge properly admitted into evidence the violent rap lyrics an accused killer wrote and sang to an associate during a jailhouse telephone call before the trial, at which he was convicted of ...
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Montgomery County lawyer Jonathan C. Dailey was disbarred Wednesday by the Maryland Court of Appeals, which found that Dailey solicited $27,000 from a former client for his own use after telling the client that the money would be an investment ...
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ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Appeals on Tuesday postponed the eight oral arguments it was scheduled to hear during the first week of April due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has spurred the high court’s chief judge to suspend ...
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ANNAPOLIS – “Justice” took one step closer to Maryland on Friday. The Senate passed, on a 45-1 vote, a proposed state constitutional amendment to change the name of Maryland’s top judicial tribunal from the Court of Appeals to the Supreme ...
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ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top court will consider whether state transit officers violated 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 ...
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ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top court Tuesday grappled with whether a man found not criminally responsible in the stabbing death of his former Dundalk landlord must head to a state psychiatric facility or back to a prison in Ohio, where he ...
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