For some of the Washington, D.C., residents who reported for jury duty last month, a pro-Trump mob's assault on the U.S. Capitol felt like a personal attack.
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Read More »July 7, 2022 Comments Off on Judges keeping Capitol riot trials in DC amid bias claims
For some of the Washington, D.C., residents who reported for jury duty last month, a pro-Trump mob's assault on the U.S. Capitol felt like a personal attack.
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Read More »June 10, 2022 Comments Off on Who should lead voir dire — judges or attorneys?
While an overwhelming majority of states, including Maryland, permit attorney-conducted voir dire, judges largely conduct the process in this state.
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Read More »September 23, 2020 Comments Off on Md. courts make adjustments to resume jury trials Oct. 5, judges say
Maryland’s circuit courts will be ready to resume jury trials Oct. 5 in a socially distanced world by taking creative steps, such as converting firehouses to jury rooms, conducting jury selection via Zoom and having jurors sit and deliberate in ...
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Read More »December 19, 2019 Comments Off on Judiciary edits jury informational video after attorneys raise concerns
The Maryland Judiciary has changed a video shown to potential jurors after attorneys raised concerns that it misstated the law on the role of juries in criminal trials. A video produced by the judiciary and available for use statewide since ...
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Read More »March 18, 2019 Comments Off on Supreme Court to consider Louisiana’s non-unanimous juries
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will consider overturning a criminal conviction by a 10-2 jury vote in Louisiana. The justice acted Monday, four months after Louisiana voters amended the state constitution to prohibit non-unanimous verdicts in criminal cases. Oregon is ...
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Read More »November 8, 2018 Comments Off on Let juries determine truthfulness, Md. appeals court says
A Maryland appeals court has overturned a man’s conviction on charges of sexual assault of a minor, saying the jury was improperly shown a recorded police interview with the defendant in which the detective repeatedly voiced disbelief with the protestations ...
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Read More »October 10, 2016 Comments Off on Supreme Court weighs dispute over racial bias in jury room
WASHINGTON — There was nothing subtle about the ethnic slurs a juror in Colorado is reported to have made during deliberations over a Hispanic defendant charged with inappropriately touching teenage girls. Two other jurors claim their colleague determined that defendant ...
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Read More »February 10, 2015 Comments Off on MARCUS LYNCH v. STATE OF MARYLAND
Appellant contends the evidence was insufficient to sustain the convictions of either rape or kidnapping and that the circuit court abused its discretion in failing to give a modified Allen charge to the jury.
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Read More »February 4, 2015 Comments Off on HELEN C. RIVERA v. STATE OF MARYLAND
Allowing trial judges to unilaterally reclassify the status of an individual’s driver’s license and bypass the MVA system severely impedes the ability of the MVA to monitor which Maryland-licensed drivers are currently permitted to drive.
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Read More »February 3, 2015 Comments Off on New trial ordered for Cheers Lounge shooter
The instruction on transferred intent was “a square peg that never fit the round hole of the State’s theory of the case,” Judge Douglas Nazarian wrote for the three-judge panel.
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