Maryland courts will extend the pause on jury trials until at least March amid a recent surge in COVID-19 cases.

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Welcome to Monday, the 68th anniversary of the first time Lucy Van Pelt pulled the football away from Charlie Brown as he was about to kick it. Here are a few news items to kick off your week. — A ...

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Prosecutors, defense counsel and civil litigators have greeted with frustration but understanding the decision by Maryland’s top jurist to suspend jury trials again, just six weeks after they resumed, due to resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We were running smoothly,” ...

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Criminal and civil jury trials in Maryland will be suspended at least through the end of the year beginning Monday due to a resurgence of the COVID-19 virus, except for those cases in which a jury has already been empaneled, ...

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Criminal cases will be scheduled before civil litigation when jury trials resume Oct. 5 if all goes according to plan amid uncertainty about COVID-19’s resilience and the likely need for social distancing well into the fall, the chair of Maryland’s ...

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Maryland courts remain at least 11 weeks away from resuming jury trials, a nearly three-month span that will deepen the backlog of cases wrought by the Judiciary’s effort to ensure that justice is not unduly delayed as it seeks to ...

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Welcome to Monday, the 46th anniversary of the publication of “All the President’s Men.” Here are some news items to get your week started. — Trump’s claim of being a New Yorker could hurt his defense. — Social media activity ...

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Welcome to Monday the 67th anniversary of the Supreme Court upholding the District of Columbia’s criminal prohibition on restaurant’s refusing to serve black customers. Here are some news items to get your week started. — Criminal defense lawyers call resuming ...

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Jury trials in Maryland will not resume until July 20 at the earliest, the Maryland Judiciary on Thursday told a Senate panel examining the court system’s plans for eventual resumption to full service amid efforts to prevent the viral spread ...

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Maryland courts will suspend all non-essential judicial activities effective immediately and suspend all jury trials beginning Monday in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera issued an order Thursday evening suspending out-of-state and out-of-country travel, requiring the minimization ...

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