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A Montgomery County Circuit judge has ordered a Wheaton man to pay a former girlfriend almost $32 million in damages for an incident that took place in and around his home last October. The default judgment — $590,000 in non-economic ...

For the first time since federal capital punishment was reinstated 12 years ago, a federal jury in Maryland yesterday returned a death sentence against a man convicted in the murders of three women at Patuxent National Wildlife Refuse in January ...

*Please repeat the question (Spanish); I can’t answer you (Italian) because (French) I don’t understand (German). The language of lawyers and the courts is often enough to daunt a bold native. Imagine what it would be like to go through ...

A convict was executed. Evidence was burned. But something about the case of the dead man, career criminal Joseph O’Dell III, won’t go away — even after three years. O’Dell advocates still want to know why Virginia officials put him ...

What was once a headline grabber has become commonplace: a parade of inmates leaving prison as DNA clears their names. All told, 75 prisoners — including eight on death row — have been freed nationwide because of DNA testing, according ...

*Please repeat the question (Spanish); I can’t answer you (Italian) because (French) I don’t understand (German). The language of lawyers and the courts is often enough to daunt a bold native. Imagine what it would be like to go through ...

Steering Clear of Racial ProfilingTown Hall Meeting at UM Law Police racial bias in profiling blacks, Hispanics and other minority drivers that allegedly results in illegal stops based on skin color — rather than driving practices — will be the ...

Bill Lan Lee Honored[IMGCAP(1)]Bill Lann Lee, left, was honored yesterday by student groups at the University of Maryland School of Law. Lee is the first Asian American to be appointed assistant attorney general for civil rights, the top civil rights ...

Steering Clear of Racial ProfilingTown Hall Meeting at UM Law Police racial bias in profiling blacks, Hispanics and other minority drivers that allegedly results in illegal stops based on skin color — rather than driving practices — will be the ...

The City of Baltimore has agreed to pay an East Baltimore homeowner $2,000 to settle his suit over a rowhouse the city razed just months after it had issued him a building permit to begin work on the fixer-upper. The ...