Maryland appellate courts have broad discretion to overturn pre-1980 convictions for violent crimes, as those guilty verdicts in all likelihood resulted from unconstitutional, “advisory” jury instructions, the state’s top court ruled Thursday.

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Attorneys for a convicted rapist and the state argued Thursday over whether Maryland appellate courts should routinely order new trials for inmates convicted of violent crimes before 1980 or if their appeals should be uniformly reviewed by circuit courts to determine if the convicts’ due process rights were in fact violated and a retrial is in order.

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Another term was set to begin at Sojourner-Douglass College this month but the school remains embroiled in a legal battle to regain its accreditation and must respond to a motion for summary judgment filed by the Middle States Commission on ...

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Maryland’s top court Friday rejected the state’s request that the judges overturn their controversial 2012 decision that reopened courthouse doors to dozens of inmates convicted of violent crimes before 1980.

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In her zeal to put television’s “Money Guys” out of business, Maryland’s securities commissioner has launched an administrative proceeding “devoid of due process” that accuses investment adviser and infomercial star Philip Rousseaux and his companies of having misled clients and falsified forms, Rousseax said in papers filed Tuesday in Baltimore City Circuit Court.

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Baltimore did not violate the constitutional rights of people arrested during last week’s riots by holding them more than 24 hours before presenting them before a district court commissioner, Baltimore City Circuit Judge Charles J. Peters ruled Monday morning.

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On January 20, 2015, the Governor formally commuted the sentences of Maryland’s four remaining death row inmates to LWOP. Accordingly, we hereby dismiss this appeal as moot.

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Appellants raise due process and other challenges to approval of developer's application to rezone vacant tract into Mixed Use Town Center.

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An indigent Baltimore man is suing the city and its police force for arresting and holding him in jail for seven months on a rape charge for which he was never prosecuted.

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In a case that could greatly raise the liability stakes for cities and counties across Maryland, the state’s highest court will decide how much Prince George’s County owes the family of a man who was killed by a police officer: the $11.5 million a jury awarded, or the $400,000 the judge ultimately ordered.

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