Twelve Baltimore residents debated complicated issues for nearly three days before informing a judge they could not reach a decision on any of the counts faced by Officer William Porter, the first of six officers to go to trial in ...

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ANNAPOLIS — As the gambling expansion work group nears a Wednesday deadline to recommend changes to the state’s casino gambling law, the panel’s deliberations have slowed the final decision on a facility planned for Baltimore. The 11-member work group held ...

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WASHINGTON — In their final attempt to convince jurors that Roger Clemens lied to Congress, prosecutors basically called his wife a liar, too. In his closing, Clemens’ lawyer Rusty Hardin characterized the case as “a horrible, horrible overreach by the ...

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Jury deliberations began Wednesday in the election fraud case against political consultant Julius Henson, who is accused of helping orchestrate an automated phone campaign urging black Democrats to stay home during the 2010 general election in Maryland. Prosecutors closed their ...

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Maryland’s state prosecutor says a campaign consultant for Republican former governor Robert Ehrlich broke the law with election day robocalls in 2010 that were aimed at suppressing black voter turnout. Closing arguments began Wednesday in the case after more than ...

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In the first murder case tried by Baltimore City State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein, a city jury returned a swift guilty verdict against William D. Carr for a mid-day shooting at a busy shopping center in June 2011. Carr was ...

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Jury deliberations in an Anne Arundel County capital murder case and a pioneering change in Maryland corporate law are among the most-read legal affairs stories of the week. The list also includes to titans of the Baltimore legal scene teaming ...

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This week, like so many in Maryland and around the nation, I awaited the jury’s verdict in the trial against George Huguely V for the murder of Yeardley Love in Charlottesville, Va. While the jury deliberated, many legal analysts and ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The jury that last week convicted Lee E. Stephens of first-degree murder began deliberating Wednesday afternoon whether he should be sentenced to death. After hearing closing arguments from the state and the defense, the Anne Arundel County Circuit ...

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A Baltimore jury has resumed deliberations in the federal stun-gun death trial of a former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy. The 10-member panel reconvened Wednesday morning after deliberating for about two hours Tuesday. The parents of 20-year-old Jarrel Gray are seeking ...

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