Howard County police violated a motorist’s constitutional rights by secretly placing a GPS device on his car and tracking the vehicle’s movements for 11 days without a warrant, a defense attorney told Maryland’s top court Friday.

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Baltimore detectives had reasonable suspicion to pull over a motorist whom they had seen with a reputed drug dealer Maryland's high court has ruled.

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A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of a Maryland law that permits police to collect DNA samples from people arrested on charges of committing or attempting to commit a violent crime.

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The Supreme Court’s justices appeared divided Tuesday over the constitutionality of a Maryland law that permits police to collect DNA samples from people arrested on charges of having committed or having attempted to commit a violent crime.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has limited the power of police to detain people who are not at home when their residence is to be searched. By a 6-3 vote Tuesday, the justices sided with a Long Island, N.Y., man ...

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A Baltimore detective lacked legal justification to use a stun gun on a fleeing man he suspected was armed, a divided Court of Appeals has held.

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How long can the government hold on to electronically stored information evidence without beginning any kind of review? U.S. v. Metter, No. 10-CR-600 (DLI), 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 155130 (E.D.N.Y. May 17, 2012) is apparently the first case to provide an answer to this question.

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So it turns out that, contrary to all appearances, Jay-Z is not the world’s foremost legal scholar after all. Caleb Mason, a law professor at Southwestern Law School recently published a 19 page legal analysis of Jay-Z’s 2004 hit “99 ...

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Maryland’s top court has reinstated a $200,000 damages award to a woman who was roused from her bed and assaulted by Prince George’s County deputy sheriffs executing an arrest warrant. In its 7-0 decision, the Court of Appeals said Kimberly ...

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As Jen posted Tuesday, the Supreme Court has ruled the government’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a “search.” The five-justice majority notably left out ...

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