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Maryland Court of Special Appeals Evidence; Gang-related activity: At the defendant’s trial for murder and related charges, the trial court erred by admitting the evidence of two unrelated murders committed by members of the criminal organization known as MS-13 pursuant ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Insurance Law; Title defects: Where the insureds could access their land from a public road, the Maryland Insurance Administration correctly determined that the insurer did not violate the Insurance Code by denying the insureds coverage ...

Maryland Court of Special Appeals Constitutional Law; Involuntary commitment: Under §10-708(i) of the Health-General Article, which states that patients involuntarily committed to mental health facilities have the right to request legal or non-legal representation when appealing a clinical review panel’s ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Law; Battered Spouse Syndrome: Where defendant charged with murder claimed self-defense and having suffered from Battered Spouse Syndrome, trial court erred in its instruction to the jury that, before it could consider all the evidence, ...

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  Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Brady violation: Circuit court properly found that undisclosed evidence of witness interviews was not material and that there was no violation of Brady v. Maryland at defendant’s trial, as there was no a reasonable probability that such evidence ...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Criminal Procedure; Post-release supervision: Where sex offender was sentenced to prison and a term of post-release supervision that included an employment restriction which gave his probation officer unduly broad discretion to approve or deny ...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Criminal Procedure; Sentencing: Where district court imposed sentence of incarceration and post-release supervision at defendant’s sentencing hearing, then in a later written order added various financial conditions to the post-release supervision component ...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Immigration Law; Doctrine of consular non-reviewability: Where government denied alien’s application for a visa following a lengthy review in which it found that alien had misrepresented her age, among other things, in ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Evidence; Relevance: Where defendant’s rap lyrics had a close factual and temporal nexus to details of the murder he was accused of having committed, the circuit court properly allowed the lyrics to be entered into evidence ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Professional Responsibility; Disbarment: Disbarment was the appropriate sanction for a Maryland attorney who, among other things, failed to take necessary and fundamental steps in client cases, including failing to respond to discovery, missing court appearances, appearing ...