Human trafficking survivors and advocates say the law allowing survivors to have their prostitution convictions vacated must be expanded to include other crimes to close a gap in the justice system. Senate Bill 691 would add misdemeanors such as drug ...

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Saying the justice system should favor substance over form, a federal judge has called for changes in U.S. to ensure long-held convicts can seek new trials based on evidence of actual innocence.

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ANNAPOLIS — A jury on Tuesday found Maryland Del. Tiffany T. Alston guilty of misdemeanor theft and misconduct in office for using state money to pay an employee in her law firm by representing the worker as a legislative employee. ...

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WASHINGTON — Lawyers for seven men convicted of a 1984 murder in Washington urged a judge Monday to overturn their clients’ convictions, saying that the slaying was likely committed by one or two people and was not the mass beating ...

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Erika Elaine Sifrit, serving a life sentence plus 20 years for killing and dismembering a Virginia couple in an Ocean City condominium, is asking a federal court to vacate her convictions based on ineffective assistance of counsel at her 2003 ...

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A federal appeals court has reversed three fraud convictions against former Prince George’s County schools chief Andre J. Hornsby and ordered a new sentencing hearing on his convictions for obstruction of justice and witness- and evidence-tampering, which remain intact. Hornsby ...

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NEW YORK — Greed on Wall Street set a record, authorities said Wednesday as they unveiled a nearly $78 million insider trading case that involved at least seven financial industry professionals and included a hedge fund co-founder who triggered a ...

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Two men who were convicted in a West Baltimore shooting in 2005 are entitled to a new trial due to unfair remarks by the prosecution, the state’s highest court held Wednesday. Telling jurors to “say ‘Enough’” ran afoul of a ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — Three former sailors convicted in a 1997 rape and murder asked the Virginia Supreme Court on Wednesday to revive an appeal that is based on the corruption convictions of the former Norfolk detective who allegedly coerced them ...

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NORFOLK, Va. — The convictions of five Somali pirates sentenced to life in prison should be upheld because the definition of piracy under international law includes failed attempts, according to a court filing by federal prosecutors. The Somali men were ...

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