CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Attorneys for a former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend want a wrongful death lawsuit against him suspended until the criminal case ends. George Huguely’s lawyers filed a motion this week in Charlottesville ...

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FREDERICK — A civil trial is under way in Frederick to determine whether a Frederick County sheriff’s deputy wrongfully shot a Taneytown couple’s dog. The Frederick News-Post reports that a six-member jury was chosen Monday to consider the complaint by ...

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A former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy has testified in a wrongful death case that he used a stun gun on a prone and unresponsive man because he believed he posed a credible threat. The Frederick News-Post reports that former Cpl. ...

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A judge said Tuesday he will consider letting jurors in a wrongful death trial go inside a prison bus on which an inmate was killed by another inmate. Baltimore City Circuit Judge Sylvester Cox reserved judgment on a plaintiffs’ motion ...

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ALFRED, Maine — The practices of a prestigious medical research institute that studies schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are on trial in Maine, where the organization collected at least 99 brains from organ donors. Anne Mozingo, of York, contends that the ...

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WASHINGTON — The nation’s federal judges agreed Tuesday to a pilot project that could televise some civil trials — 16 years after the judges ended a similar experiment. Appeals court judge David Sentelle told reporters that many of the details ...

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