The Maryland Constitution gives criminal defendants a greater right to confront prosecution witnesses than guaranteed under the federal Constitution, Maryland’s top court said Thursday in holding that the accused have a state constitutional right to cross-examine the authors of damning ...

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Fed up with dog poop being left around, board members at a Maryland condominium complex are now relying on DNA samples to police unscooped feces.

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A man has been convicted of rape and false imprisonment in a 2008 Maryland cold case.

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Maryland’s top court will again examine the scope of law enforcement’s authority to collect and test a criminal suspect’s DNA without a warrant.

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Indigent convicts have no statutory right to counsel for post-conviction petitions seeking DNA evidence, Maryland’s top court ruled unanimously Tuesday.

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A man’s conviction in a 1984 rape will stand despite issues raised about DNA evidence presented during the trial.

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ROCKVILLE — A convicted rapist was sentenced to three additional life terms, two of them to be served consecutively, for rapes he committed in Maryland in the 1970s. The Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office reports Timothy Joseph Buzbee was sentenced ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out the conviction of a South Carolina man who has spent most of the last 29 years on death row, ruling his trial attorneys failed to challenge forensic evidence that could ...

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NEW HAVEN, Conn.  — Connecticut prosecutors will try to send a man suspected in rape cases along the East Coast to face trial first in Virginia, where a prosecutor asked for him to be extradited to answer for “heinous crimes.” ...

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Criminal Procedure Waiver of Miranda rights BOTTOM LINE: Where defendant did not unequivocally invoke his right to counsel, he waived his Miranda rights and, therefore, the statement defendant made during his custodial interrogation by police was admissible at trial. CASE: ...

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