Maryland’s top court on Wednesday opens the public sessions of its 2017-2018 term in which it will consider among its approximately 150 appeals the constitutional rights of individuals who flee from the police and of convicted criminals at sentencing. On ...

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Criminal defendants deemed incompetent to stand trial and ordered committed to a mental health facility must be transferred from pretrial detention to the hospital without unreasonable delay, lest their state constitutional right to due process be violated, Maryland’s top court ...

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Two food truck operators suing Baltimore city over a rule that keeps them from setting up near a restaurant specializing in the same cuisine are asking a judge to toss the regulation because it is “unconstitutional economic protectionism.” The rule ...

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Maryland’s second-highest court Tuesday overturned a man’s recent conviction on charges of having raped two teenagers 35 years ago, citing more recently discovered evidence that prosecutors in 1983 acknowledged their failure to bring him to trial within 180 days of ...

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Maryland’s top court will weigh if a set-to-music victim-impact video meant to stir a judge’s emotions violated a defendant’s constitutional rights.

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Senate passes bill to block Judiciary bail-reform rule by lifting its requirement that judges prefer non-financial conditions for defendant’s pre-trial release.

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Maryland's attorney general says he is willing to take President Donald Trump to court if he holds people from seven largely Muslim countries at Baltimore-area ports.

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People convicted of conspiracy to commit a violent crime have neither a statutory nor constitutional right to conduct a potentially exonerating DNA test on evidence in the state’s possession, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Tuesday.

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Defense attorneys say they're "shocked, shocked” by the Maryland attorney general’s conclusion that assessing bail beyond a defendant’s financial means is likely unconstitutional.

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Maryland’s top court considers whether a man serving a life sentence for conspiracy to commit murder has a statutory and constitutional right to conduct a potentially exonerating DNA test on evidence the state has.

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