Appellant’s contention is that theft by possession of stolen goods is not a direct result of a victim’s loss, thus restitution is improper. We agree.

Tagged with: criminal procedure Reed restitution sentencing Sept. Term 2013 worcester county

Appellant argues that a reasonable person would not feel free to leave when the officers approached him and activated their emergency lights on their patrol cars. The officer’s show of authority did not ripen into a seizure because the officers had not restrained appellant physically nor had appellant submitted to the officers’ show of authority.

Tagged with: criminal procedure dorchester county evidence Raker Search and seizure Sept. Term 2013 sufficiency of the evidence

Appellant claims his Harford County convictions are a nullity, and hence his sentences illegal, because he was not brought to trial within 120 days after he had filed, under the Maryland Intrastate Detainer Act (“IDA”), a request for final disposition of the charges.

Tagged with: criminal procedure harford county sentencing Sept. Term 2014 speedy trial Zarnoch

The officer who conducted the traffic stop of Appellant’s vehicle had a reasonable suspicion, if not also probable cause, to stop the vehicle based on his observation of Appellant’s vehicle spinning its wheels and his knowledge that Appellant’s license was suspended.

Tagged with: criminal procedure dorchester evidence Leahy motion to suppress Sept. Term 2013 traffic stop

Calvin Parnell, appellant, filed a pro se Petition for Writ of Error Coram Nobis and Motion to Vacate Guilty Pleas, arguing that in 2000, he “unintelligently, unknowingly, and involuntarily” entered into a guilty plea agreement, which resulted in the collateral consequence of an increased minimum sentence in a subsequent federal court proceeding.

Tagged with: baltimore city criminal procedure guilty plea Hotten Sept. Term 2013 writ of error coram nobis

On January 20, 2015, the Governor formally commuted the sentences of Maryland’s four remaining death row inmates to LWOP. Accordingly, we hereby dismiss this appeal as moot.

Tagged with: capital punishment criminal procedure death sentence due process Eastern Shore Jody Lee Miles queen annes county Sept. Term 2013 Wright

The Court of Appeals vacated the judgment of this Court as to Burroughs and remanded for further consideration in light of Nalls and Melvin v. State. For the reasons that follow, we shall hold that the issue has not been preserved for our review

Tagged with: baltimore city criminal procedure jury trial Sept. Term 2013 Wright

I. Did the trial court err by permitting the State to introduce a witness’s prior consistent statements? II. Did the trial court abuse its discretion by denying the appellant’s mistrial motions?

Tagged with: criminal procedure evidence Eyler_D Prince George's County Sept. Term 2013

Did the trial court err in allowing into evidence an absent school psychologist’s written report on I.Q. testing of the complainant and his expert conclusions about her intellectual limitations, and in allowing a surrogate witness to summarize that report, where the pivotal issue in the case was the mental capacity of the complainant to consent to sexual intercourse

Tagged with: criminal procedure dorchester county evidence hearsay Meredith Sept. Term 2013

After providing only tenuous evidence linking Baumgarten to the crime scene, the State failed to show any other evidence that he was with Marketti on the day of the crime.

Tagged with: criminal law criminal procedure Howard County Sept. Term 2013 sufficiency of the evidence theft Zarnoch