The appellate ruling had likened the defendant and his mother to monsters from the epic poem 'Beowulf.'

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A Maryland appeals court overturned a first-degree murder conviction Wednesday, saying a damning, anonymous 911 call that described the shooting at a northern Baltimore intersection should not have been admitted into evidence. The intermediate Court of Special Appeals also said Delvonta ...

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Trial judges must admit an alleged batterer’s taunts into evidence at murder trials when the defense is battered-spouse syndrome, Maryland’s second-highest court ruled Thursday in overturning the conviction and life sentence of a girlfriend who fatally shot her boyfriend in ...

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Did the circuit court err in admitting hearsay testimony from a forensic nurse and from a redacted medical report, and in permitting the State to elicit from the forensic nurse her opinion as to whether her findings were consistent with what the victim told her?

Tagged with: baltimore city criminal procedure evidence hearsay Leahy rape Sept. Term 2013 voir dire

Did the lower court err in admitting the hearsay declarations of an alleged co-conspirator which were made before the declarant and the accused entered into any unlawful agreement, and thus, before the formation of any conspiracy

Tagged with: conspiracy evidence hearsay Montgomery County Raker Sept. Term 2013

Convicted of a murder conspiracy and other crimes, appellant claims violations of statutory and constitutional speedy trial rights as well as evidentiary rules governing hearsay.

Tagged with: criminal procedure evidence hearsay Reed Sept. Term 2012 speedy trial rights Wicomico County

Did the trial court err in allowing into evidence an absent school psychologist’s written report on I.Q. testing of the complainant and his expert conclusions about her intellectual limitations, and in allowing a surrogate witness to summarize that report, where the pivotal issue in the case was the mental capacity of the complainant to consent to sexual intercourse

Tagged with: criminal procedure dorchester county evidence hearsay Meredith Sept. Term 2013

Draper argues that there was insufficient evidence to support his conviction and that the circuit court erroneously allowed inadmissible hearsay testimony to be presented during his trial

Tagged with: caroline county hearsay Nazarian Sept. Term 2012 sufficiency of the evidence

Appellant appeals from an order granting CarMax's Motion to Quash Subpoena and Request for Protective Order and Sanctions Appellant further appeals from an order granting the Bollweg appellees’ Motion for Summary Judgment on the counts of tortious interference with prospective economic advantage, private nuisance, civil conspiracy, and aider and abettor liability

Tagged with: hearsay Howard County Reed Sept. Term 2013

“Whether the trial court erred in admitting hearsay testimony.”

Tagged with: Calvert County criminal procedure hearsay Sept. Term 2013 Sharer