The purpose of the closing argument is to incite jurors or a judge to render the decision you request. It is not about impressing listeners with your eloquence. According to the apocryphal tale, when listeners heard Demosthenes, they would remark, ...

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Maryland’s second-highest court has thrown out a jury’s $800,000 award to a man who claims to have been beaten and falsely arrested by Six Flags America security guards while searching shirtless for his lost son on Father’s Day 2018. In ...

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Trial judges have broad discretion as to whether criminal-defense attorneys may replay trial testimony via video during closing arguments, Maryland’s top court ruled Thursday in upholding a Baltimore police officer’s conviction for shooting an unarmed man. In its decision, the ...

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vtrial judges should be required to permit defense counsel during closing argument to replay trial testimony via video unless it would be too time consuming or mislead the jury, a defense attorney said Wednesday

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Maryland’s top court will consider whether a then-Baltimore police officer convicted of shooting an unarmed man was denied a fair trial because the judge barred him from showing a video of trial testimony during closing arguments.

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The prosecution’s challenge to an accused murderer's testimony came too late, a Maryland appeals court has held, overturning the man’s conviction and life sentence.

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ANNAPOLIS — Del. Tiffany T. Alston’s defense team put the prosecution on trial in its closing arguments to the jury Monday, saying the state prosecutor had engaged in “arrogance and abuse of power” in bringing a “meritless” charge of misdemeanor ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Attorneys have rested their case in the trial of a Maryland lawmaker accused of theft and misconduct. Anne Arundel Circuit Court Judge Paul Harris Jr. gave instructions to the jury on Friday in the case of Del. Tiffany ...

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A lawyer is asking a federal jury in Baltimore to find that a former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy fatally shocked a Frederick man with an electric stun gun. Plaintiffs’ attorney Gregory Lattimer gave his closing argument Tuesday in the civil ...

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FORT MEADE — An Army intelligence analyst defied the nation’s trust by indiscriminately pulling more than 700,000 documents from a supposedly secure computer network and giving reams of national secrets to WikiLeaks, a military prosecutor argued Thursday at the close ...

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