WASHINGTON — Michael Cohen’s testimony is just the beginning of what Democrats in Congress see as long days ahead providing checks and balances on the Oval Office. As hearings and investigations unfold, Democrats, particularly those running for the White House, ...

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Reporter sues Iran leads news items including ex-judge on trial for alleged online antics, law schools seek to downsize and a ban on gender bias in insurance.

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West Virginia impeachment heads news summary including an 18-year-old murder case goes to trial, a client records own lawyer and Kato Kaelin's rooting interest.

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Defendants’ voluntary statements to police after invoking their right to remain silent can be used to impeach their contrasting testimony at trial, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Monday in upholding the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence of a man who chose to take the stand in his own defense.

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A scandal involving lavish office renovations and other financial abuses by the highest court in one of the poorest states in America has triggered an extraordinary move by one branch of government to essentially fire another.

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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.

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The Court of Special Appeals on Thursday temporarily stayed a Baltimore criminal trial so it can rule on a police officer’s motion to prohibit the defendant from questioning the officer about his internal affairs records. A Baltimore city judge ruled ...

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The growing political support for the removal of James F. Fitzgerald has set the table for the impeachment of the embattled sheriff — a first in Maryland political history. But some lawmakers, even those who are offended by Fitzgerald’s alleged ...

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Howard County Executive Allan H. Kittleman is looking for other avenues to remove his county’s embattled elected sheriff and has called on the county attorney to look for other options. Kittleman, in an interview Monday, continued to call for Sheriff ...

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The rule seems to favor the average American over Wall Street but has been criticized for only benefiting 'liberal trial lawyers.'

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