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Court of Special Appeals Criminal Procedure, Bail review: By setting two defendants’ bail without considering alternative non-financial conditions or assessing the defendants’ abilities to satisfy financial conditions, the circuit court violated the revised Maryland Rules governing pretrial release of defendants, ...
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Trial to begin over deadly attack on Maryland police station
More than two years after a gunman's videotaped attack on a Maryland police station, a jury will hear testimony that a police officer mistakenly fired the bullet that killed an undercover detective who rushed to the scene of the shootout.
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Read More »Deadline extended for insanity plea in newsroom shooting
A Maryland judge has extended the deadline for lawyers to file a possible plea of not criminally responsible by reason of insanity for the man charged with killing five employees at a newspaper office.
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Read More »Case Search functionality returned
The Maryland Judiciary temporarily suspended access to Case Search on Tuesday to fix technical issues causing poor response time on the site.
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Read More »Privileged and private? Md. high court considers confidentiality for text messages
Delving into the 21st century world of marital privilege, Maryland’s top court is considering whether text messages between spouses are presumed to be confidential and may not be used as evidence in a criminal trial except in extraordinary circumstances. The ...
Read More »UM sued for breaching medical technology licensing agreement
A medical technology company is suing the University of Maryland, College Park for allegedly disclosing trade secrets and misappropriating licensed technology.
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Read More »In chaotic era, conference aims to amplify 1st Amendment
For two days in Pittsburgh, a national exploration of what the First Amendment means to America in 2018 dug into every corner of this notion to understand where we are, and where we're going, in terms of the rights Americans have to express themselves.
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Read More »Sandy Hook shooter’s belongings ordered released to public
Police must release disturbing writings and other belongings of the Newtown school shooter to the public because they are not exempt from the state's open record laws, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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Read More »Sandra Day O’Connor announces likely Alzheimer’s diagnosis
Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, announced Tuesday that she has the beginning stages of dementia, "probably Alzheimer's disease."
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Read More »2 Baltimore men get life in prison for Christmas shooting
Two Baltimore men have been sentenced to life in prison for their role in a Christmas Day shooting. The state’s attorney for Baltimore County says Darrell Burrell and William Johnson were sentenced Monday by a judge in Baltimore County Circuit ...
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