The Court of Special Appeals upheld the conviction of a man who challenged the validity of a warrant that was based on observations police made when they arrested him in his home earlier that day. Curtis Groves pleaded guilty to ...

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Police officers’ discovery of small amounts of marijuana in a resident’s discarded trash does not justify a warrant to search the entire house, a federal appeals court said last week in ruling that guns found in a Fort Washington home ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined without comment to review a Maryland high-court decision that appellate courts must defer to trial judges’ determinations – unless clearly wrong – that a drug-sniffing dog was reliable.

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Kavanaugh, immigration, sentencing round out roundup.

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A Maryland appeals court has issued a warning to out-of-state motorists who like their car windows heavily tinted.

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Maryland Public Defender Paul B. DeWolfe  has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn the state high court’s decision requiring appellate courts to defer to trial judges’ determinations – unless clearly wrong —  that a drug-sniffing dog was ...

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A federal judge sided with police Wednesday in a civil lawsuit over the constitutionality of using a cell site simulator, finding an order obtained by police met the warrant requirement.

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Police officers have probable cause to arrest someone for marijuana possession if they smell the drug clearly on the person -- even though possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana is not a crime in Maryland, the state’s second-highest court very reluctantly ruled Thursday.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined without comment to hear the appeals of two Baltimore bank robbers who had argued that police violated their constitutional rights by tracking their past travels through cellphone tower records collected without a search warrant.

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If the allegations are true, a Prince George’s County police officer violated a suspected violent criminal’s constitutional rights in 2012 by shooting the armed, but non-threatening man while making an arrest, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. But the officer, ...

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