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Nick Reiner’s high-profile lawyer quits as public defenders take over; arraignment postponed
High-profile defense attorney quits representing Nick Reiner in his parents’ murder case, postponing arraignment until February 23 in LA.
Md. high court overturns first-degree murder conviction, cites Kazadi
A unanimous Maryland high court Monday overturned the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence of a Baltimore man who allegedly stabbed his wife 55 times after discovering she had cheated […]
Md. high court upholds conviction of graduating teens’ killer
A unanimous Maryland high court has upheld a man’s first-degree murder conviction in the killing of two Montgomery County teenagers on the eve of their high school graduation, saying the […]
Killer of graduating teens appeals conviction in Md. high court
The attorney for a convicted killer of two Montgomery County teenagers on the eve of their high school graduation urged Maryland’s top court Thursday to overturn the first-degree murder conviction, […]
Frosh urges justices to decline Germantown murderer’s appeal
Maryland’s attorney general has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence of a woman who killed her husband’s ex-wife in Germantown seven […]
Senate bill would increase time before lifers are eligible for parole
ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s chief local prosecutors pressed a Senate committee Tuesday to correct what they called a quirk in the state’s sentencing law that enables life-sentenced first-degree murderers or rapists […]
Judge acted as prosecutor at murder trial, Md. high court says
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 […]
Judge’s reopening of murder trial draws Md. high court’s attention
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.
Md. high court weighs state’s questioning of defendant’s silence
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.
Failure to disclose pretrial ID yields murder conviction reversal
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 […]
Md. high court weighs juries’ role in life-without-parole sentences
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?
Man convicted of slaying another man in Salisbury
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 […]
