A unanimous Maryland high court Thursday refused to reinstate a first-degree murder conviction in Baltimore, saying the judge violated the defendant’s due-process rights by reopening the trial – on his own motion – so the state could present damaging palm-print ...

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A defense attorney urged Maryland’s top court Wednesday not to reinstate a first-degree murder conviction, saying the judge violated the defendant’s due-process rights by reopening the trial – on the jurist’s own motion -- so the state could present damaging palm-print evidence.

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Prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a subsequently convicted first-degree murderer by questioning him at trial about what he did not tell police after invoking his right to remain silent, a defense attorney told Maryland’s top court Tuesday.

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Maryland prosecutors need not tell defense attorneys when a state’s witness has identified a co-defendant before trial – unless that identification would assuredly incriminate the defendant, a divided Maryland high court has ruled in reversing a first-degree murder conviction. In ...

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In repealing the death penalty, did the General Assembly leave it for juries to decide if first-degree murderers deserve life without possibility of parole?

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SALISBURY — A 22-year-old man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of another man. The Daily Times of Salisbury reports that on Thursday, a Wicomico County jury convicted Delonte Bryant in the death of 21-year-old Dommeir ...

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A prosecutor urged Maryland’s high court last week to reinstate the first-degree murder and attempted-murder convictions — and life-sentence — of a man who remains charged with killing one and wounding another in a 2012 shooting outside an Eldersburg tavern.

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Maryland’s top court has agreed to hear the state’s request that it reinstate the first-degree and attempted murder convictions -- and life sentence --of a man who remains charged with killing one and wounding another in a 2012 shooting outside an Eldersburg tavern.

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Maryland’s top court Wednesday overturned the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence of a former Baltimore police sergeant who stood accused of having shot his mistress to death in 1993.

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Justices on Kansas' highest court expressed skepticism Wednesday that a man convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting of a Wichita abortion provider should get a new trial because he sincerely believed he was saving the lives of unborn children.

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