Maryland prosecutors need not tell defendants about the past dishonesty of the state’s witnesses before a guilty plea is entered, Maryland’s second-highest court has ruled in upholding the drug possession conviction of a man whose main accuser had a record ...

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A lawyer’s failure to warn clients that a guilty plea in state court can be used against them in a federal criminal proceeding does not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel, a federal judge in Baltimore ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge ...

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People who plead guilty to a crime or concede that the state has enough evidence to convict them forfeit their right to test a later-discovered DNA sample that could prove their innocence, Maryland’s top court has ruled.

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The former owner of a group of internet sports memorabilia businesses with facilities in Maryland and Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to a $2.5 million dollar fraud scheme. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release that year-old Joshua Shores ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The third of four county corrections officers indicted in a contraband smuggling operation at an Annapolis jail has pleaded guilty. The Capital Gazette of Annapolis reports that 42-year-old Kenyatta Trotter pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted bribery of a ...

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Calvin Parnell, appellant, filed a pro se Petition for Writ of Error Coram Nobis and Motion to Vacate Guilty Pleas, arguing that in 2000, he “unintelligently, unknowingly, and involuntarily” entered into a guilty plea agreement, which resulted in the collateral consequence of an increased minimum sentence in a subsequent federal court proceeding.

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Did the circuit court err in denying appellant’s petition for writ of error coram nobis where appellant asserted that his 2004 plea did not comport with Maryland Rule 4-242(c)?

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Did the circuit court err in finding (1) that appellant waived his right to coram nobis relief, and (2) that appellant’s guilty plea was made knowingly and voluntarily?

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former CIA officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to leaking the identity of one of the agency’s covert operatives to a reporter and will be sentenced to more than two years in prison. As part of a plea ...

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FORT HOOD, Texas — The trial for an Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting was put on hold Wednesday by an appeals court considering his objections to being forcibly shaved. Maj. Nidal Hasan had been scheduled ...

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