A victim of mistaken identity who spent three months behind bars cannot sue the deputy whose uncorroborated Internet searches led to his arrest, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held in a 2-1 split.

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FREDERICK — A civil trial is under way in Frederick to determine whether a Frederick County sheriff’s deputy wrongfully shot a Taneytown couple’s dog. The Frederick News-Post reports that a six-member jury was chosen Monday to consider the complaint by ...

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FREDERICK — A former Frederick County sheriff’s deputy has a January trial date on charges he sexually abused a 14-year-old girl. Forty-six-year-old Sam Bowman of New Market had a pretrial conference Monday afternoon in Frederick. He faces three counts of ...

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A Baltimore jury awarded $600,000 — two-thirds of it in “nominal” damages — Wednesday to a deputy sheriff who was arrested by a city police officer in 2008 when both responded to a call concerning the mentally ill brother of ...

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A Baltimore jury has awarded $600,000 — two-thirds of it in “nominal” damages — to a deputy sheriff who was arrested by a city police officer in May 2008 while both were responding to a call concerning the mentally ill ...

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A federal appeals court has revived an excessive-force lawsuit against a Somerset County deputy who pulled his handgun instead of his Taser and shot an unarmed man suspected of failing to pay child support. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

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