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Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Law; Merger: Where it was unclear from the record whether the jury based the defendant’s convictions for second-degree assault and fourth-degree sexual offense on the same or different acts, under the merger rule articulated in ...

ANNAPOLIS — Attorneys for a man who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper argued Wednesday that a psychologist retained by prosecutors should not be able to testify about his observations of the man’s jail cell or interviews with jail ...

BALTIMORE — Kelyn Yanez used to clean homes during the day and wait tables at night in the Houston area before the coronavirus. But the mother of three lost both jobs in March because of the pandemic and now is ...

GREENBELT — A Maryland man who pleaded guilty on Tuesday to prostitution charges kept detailed “meeting minutes” and a “comptroller’s report” that allowed investigators to document his illegal business, according to court records. Investigators also found a self-described prostitution “training ...

A gun-rights group will urge the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that Maryland owes gun owners money for having required them to surrender their bump stocks and similar devices they can place on their firearms to make them fire faster, ...

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A group of Montgomery County parents and Montgomery County religious schools filed a suit in Greenbelt Federal court seeking an injunction against Montgomery County’s order closing classroom instruction in religious and private schools. The plaintiffs are being represented by Timothy F. Maloney of Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, P.A. ...

TOWSON — Police in Maryland said they arrested a man who shined a laser pointer at one of their helicopters. The alleged incident happened last month in Essex, Maryland as officers were flying the helicopter during an unrelated investigation, Baltimore ...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is perhaps the most forthcoming member of the Supreme Court when it comes to telling the public about her many health issues. But she waited more than four months to reveal that her cancer had returned and that she was undergoing chemotherapy.

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Howard County is joining an amicus brief, filed by the State of New York, in support of the CASA complaint against the Trump Administration’s rule to delay applicants for asylum from getting authorization to work while their application is processed. ...

A Maryland firearms dealer can pursue its constitutional challenge to the state’s law and regulations requiring would-be handgun purchasers to be licensed before they can buy the weapon, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. Atlantic Guns Inc. claims the Firearm ...

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