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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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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