Bcause the Court of Appeals addressed the same issue about Kopera’s perjury and held, in Douglas v. State, 423 Md. 156, 165 (2011), that a hearing was required, we conclude that the circuit court erred in denying Carver a hearing on his petition for a writ of actual innocence.

Tagged with: baltimore city criminal procedure Meredith newly discovered evidence perjury Sept. Term 2012 writ of actual innocence

Defense counsel filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that the indictment had to be dismissed on the grounds of double jeopardy due to the fact that appellant had been convicted and sentenced in Washington County for the crime of possessing the same firearm

Tagged with: criminal procedure double jeopardy Prince George's County Sept. Term 2013

Did the trial court err in not merging appellant’s conviction for first-degree assault into his conviction for involuntary manslaughter or, alternatively, did the trial court err in not merging his conviction for involuntary manslaughter into his first-degree assault conviction?

Tagged with: assault baltimore city criminal procedure manslaughter merger of sentences sentencing Sept. Term 2013 Thieme

Leonard Mullikin appeals from his conviction for second-degree murder. He asks us to apply plain error review to errors he identifies in the circuit court’s jury instructions and to improper statements made by the State in closing argument.

Tagged with: Cecil County criminal procedure evidence Jury instructions Nazarian Sept. Term 2013

1. Did the court err in failing to dismiss the charges against [Bell] due to a violation of his Constitutional right to a speedy trial? 2. Did the trial court abuse [its] discretion by declining to excuse a juror after she disclosed an emotional reaction to the testimony of the state’s primary witness?

Tagged with: criminal procedure juries Montgomery County Sept. Term 2013 Wright

Following denial of what he claimed was his “fourth” motion to correct an illegal sentence, Kitchen presents four questions which are reducible to one: Was the verdict invalid, and hence the sentence illegal, because the clerk did not poll the foreman when polling the jury as to their verdict?

Tagged with: baltimore city Berger criminal procedure juries sentencing Sept. Term 2013

Appellant presents one issue for our review: whether the trial court committed plain error in failing to instruct the jury on the “claim of right” defense to the charge of theft.

Tagged with: baltimore city criminal procedure jury instruction Raker Sept. Term 2013 theft

Did the trial judge erroneously decline to receive in evidence a statement the appellant gave to the police in its entirety? Did the judge erroneously refuse a request from a juror to have a written copy of a witness's testimony?

Tagged with: baltimore city criminal procedure evidence Jurors Moylan Sept. Term 2014 statement to police

Did the trial court err by admitting part of a recording of telephone call between wife and husband in jail? Did the trial court cause reversible error by denying appellant’s motion for a mistrial made during the prosecutor’s rebuttal closing argument?

Tagged with: baltimore city criminal procedure evidence Hotten Sept. Term 2013

Artiga presents two questions for review: 1. Did the trial court err in admitting a tape recording of a 911 call into evidence? 2. Did the trial court err in refusing Artiga’s request for a postponement?

Tagged with: baltimore city criminal procedure evidence Friedman Sept. Term 2012