WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is making it easier for inmates who are accused of crimes — but not yet convicted — to bring cases of excessive force against jail officials. The justices on Monday ruled 5-4 in favor of ...

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Now is not the time to cease-and-desist until modest and comfortable reforms are made. Getting back on the same path simply does not work for thousands of people in Baltimore. The national media spotlight will fade over the next several weeks and months. However, it is my hope is that the local landscape will have been altered for those seeking a real departure in the way people are treated, educated and policed.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for a man to pursue a $15 million lawsuit against the Baltimore Police Department and three of its officers, alleging that their unconstitutional withholding of exculpatory evidence from his 1988 trial led to him serving 20 years in prison for murder before DNA tests helped bring his freedom.

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A symposium held on Friday brought together experts and law professors from a variety of schools to debate First Amendment issues that affect commercial speech. Some related to health, while others dealt with technology or religion.

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I have been ruminating on a couple of ideas surrounding change that were sparked by recent events great and small.

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How the economic justice agenda in King's "Why I Oppose the Vietnam War" speech remains relevant - and poignant - today.

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A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Muslim prison inmate in Arkansas can grow a short beard for religious reasons.

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About 100 protesters raised signs, banners and their voices near the State House on Thursday to call for police accountability.

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To the extent appellant is arguing that the sentences to be served are a combination of consecutive and concurrent sentences rather than simply a series of consecutive sentences, any ambiguity appears (but we do not decide) to have been resolved in appellant’s favor, but if not, the issue should first be addressed in the circuit court and we shall vacate the judgment and remand for that express purpose.

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Did the circuit court err in denying appellant’s petition for writ of error coram nobis where appellant asserted that his 2004 plea did not comport with Maryland Rule 4-242(c)?

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