WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated the conviction and death sentence of a California man convicted of murder — even though a lower court made mistakes when it considered whether prosecutors illegally excluded blacks and Hispanics from ...
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Read More »Lawyers for Jody Lee Miles have asked the Court of Special Appeals to reconsider its decision that his death sentence appeal became moot when former Gov. Martin O'Malley commuted it to life in prison without the possibly of parole.
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Last week, the Delaware Supreme Court said “yes” to Erek L. Barron’s appeal, throwing out Isaiah W. McCoy’s death sentence and ordering a new trial.
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Read More »On the same day Gov. Martin O’Malley issued an executive order commuting Jody Lee Miles’ death sentence, Miles’ lawyers filed a motion opposing his new sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Read More »Maryland no longer has the ability to carry out the death penalty even against someone who was sentenced before capital punishment was banned last year, the state attorney general and lawyers for a death-row inmate argued Monday.
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Read More »Attorneys for a man on Maryland's death row will argue before an appeals court that his sentence is illegal because the state no longer has a death penalty.
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Outgoing Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler is urging the Court of Appeals to spare the lives of the four men on Maryland’s death row, saying Maryland’s 2013 repeal of capital punishment should apply retroactively.
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A ferry captain's trial leads news roundup that includes final plea of executed woman, debate over "yes means yes" and solitary confinement for condemned inmates.
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Supreme Court's new term heads legal news roundup that includes a death-penalty case, a student's immigration status and an AIG lawsuit.
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Death penalty lifted, journalists imprisoned and Sotomayor reflects in this week's Law Blog Roundup.
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