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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Read More »January 18, 2022 Comments Off on Maryland jury trials on hold until March amid COVID-19 wave
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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Read More »November 16, 2020 Comments Off on “Varsity Blues” might be playing at Harvard
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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Read More »November 13, 2020 Comments Off on Md. jury trial suspension elicits lawyers’ frustration, understanding, concerns
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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Read More »November 12, 2020 Comments Off on Barbera orders suspension of Md. jury trials through December
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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Read More »July 27, 2020 Comments Off on Criminal trials go first when juries return, Ripken says
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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Read More »July 20, 2020 Comments Off on As Md. trial backlog grows, attorneys fear impact of justice delayed
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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Read More »June 15, 2020 Comments Off on Being a New Yorker could hurt Trump
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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Read More »June 8, 2020 Comments Off on Defense lawyers oppose jury trials resuming
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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Read More »May 7, 2020 Comments Off on Jury trials will not resume until at least July 20, Judiciary says
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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Read More »March 12, 2020 Comments Off on Md. courts to suspend non-essential activities, postpone jury trials
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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