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Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Habeas corpus: A petitioner who was on unsupervised probation and living in Michigan was not eligible to seek habeas corpus relief in Maryland because he was not committed, detained, confined, or restrained in Maryland ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Contact Law; Promissory note: Under the principles of contract interpretation, a promissory note provision outlining the amount that an employee would be required to repay under a company’s tuition loan program in the event that the ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Criminal Procedure; Search and seizure: The circuit court erred in denying the defendant’s motion to suppress evidence discovered by Maryland Transit Authority officers when, during a fare inspection by MTA officials on  Light Rail Train, ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Criminal Procedure; Coram nobis: Where the defendant argued that the circuit court erred in accepting his guilty pleas on the basis that, prior to the date that he entered the guilty pleas, the State failed ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Evidence; Defense witnesses: The trial judge properly excluded from evidence proffered by the defendant to insinuate that another individual had committed the crime with which he had been charged, including evidence of the other individual’s ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Administrative Law; Regulatory sanctions: The disciplinary sanctions imposed by the Maryland Securities Commissioner on an individual for over 1,000 violations of the Maryland Securities Act, including revocation of the individual’s investment adviser representative registration, permanent bar from ...

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Administrative Law; Denial of disability benefits: Where vocational expert testified that disability claimant could perform Level 2 jobs, as defined by the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, judgment of the district court, which ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Jury selection: Where the jury room of defendant’s assigned courtroom was reachable only via a 25-step staircase, and no other courtroom was available at the time of defendant’s trial, the circuit court did not ...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Immigration Law; Detention during withholding proceedings: Where deported aliens who returned to the United States and were subject to reinstated removal orders pursued withholding of removal based on fear of persecution in ...

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Criminal Law; Effect of plea in State court: Where defendant was convicted in federal court of possessing a firearm after being “convicted” of a felony, conviction was reversed because, the North Carolina Supreme ...