LAS VEGAS — A Maryland woman has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for worker’s compensation fraud devised during a 2006 stay at the Las Vegas Hilton. The Nevada Attorney General’s office said Wednesday that 45-year-old Tamara ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A medical marijuana work group created in the spring by the General Assembly will recommend by Friday two models for new legislation. One would assign medical marijuana distribution solely to academic institutions, while the other would permit physicians ...

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WASHINGTON — After months of complaints from immigrant advocates, the Obama administration promised in August that immigration authorities would start focusing their scarce resources on finding and deporting serious criminals, and largely leave alone immigrants whose only offense was crossing ...

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BOSTON — A prior state conviction for possession of marijuana did not trigger the enhancement of a drug trafficking sentence under federal guidelines, the en banc 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in reversing judgment. Under the federal ...

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GREENBELT — Prince George’s County Councilwoman Leslie E. Johnson pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to commit evidence and witness tampering related to money her husband, then-county executive Jack B. Johnson, received from developers in exchange for helping them secure federal ...

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RALEIGH, North Carolina — A federal grand jury has indicted two-time presidential candidate John Edwards over massive sums of money spent to keep his mistress in hiding during the peak of his 2008 campaign for the White House. The case ...

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If its unanimous decision Wednesday is any indication, Maryland’s top court had little doubt that Ramon Lopez deserves a new trial because the judge at his trial unconstitutionally allowed him to waive his right to counsel and defend himself on ...

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The criminal trial of a Towson lawyer accused of stealing money from four of his clients has been postponed. Peter M. Callegary, whose case was scheduled for Tuesday, will now go to trial Jan. 27 in Baltimore County Circuit Court. ...

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Last week’s sentencing of a former Montgomery County malpractice lawyer brought to light an addiction rarely discussed in the professional legal community — gambling. Bradley Schwartz was sentenced to five years in state prison last Monday on a felony theft ...

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