Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Prosecution’s failure to disclose: Where defendant sought to vacate past guilty pleas on the grounds that he was not provided with evidence of the State’s witnesses’ prior misconduct before his plea hearing, circuit court ...

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Maryland Court of Special Appeals Administrative Law; Judicial review: For purposes of judicial review, where the administrative record and the county planning board’s final determination reflected that, in considering a preliminary plan submitted for its approval, the planning board considered ...

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Maryland Court of Special Appeals Criminal Law; Witness tampering: Where defendant married potential witness for State with intent to have her invoke spousal testimonial privilege to prevent her from testifying at trial, evidence was sufficient to support convictions for witness ...

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Maryland Court of Special Appeals Administrative Law; Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights: In a police disciplinary proceeding, although the administrative board transmitted its recommendation for a penalty for a police officer’s misconduct to the police commissioner’s office on September ...

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Maryland Court of  Special Appeals Civil Procedure; Discovery deadlines: The circuit court did not abuse its discretion in striking a critical witness when the party’s failure to meet the scheduling order deadlines resulted from an indefensible lack of diligence because, ...

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Maryland Court of Special Appeals Administrative Law; Zoning application: An agency’s decision to deny an application for a special exception on the ground that procedural timeframes were not followed was arbitrary and capricious because the government waived the timeframes when ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Constitutional Law; Rational basis review: A city ordinance prohibiting mobile vendors from parking their food trucks within 300 feet of a competing retail establishment satisfied the applicable rational basis test because the rule was rationally related ...

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  Maryland Court of Appeals Criminal Procedure; Ineffective assistance of counsel: Where the motions court held in abeyance the defendant’s motion to modify a sentence under Rule 4-345(e), which grants a court revisory power over a sentence up until the  ...

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Maryland Court of Special Appeals Administrative Law; Disciplinary proceedings: In administrative disciplinary actions by the Baltimore Police Department against 15 Baltimore police officers, where the police commissioner’s designee failed to indicate his approval of the disciplinary actions by signing the ...

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Maryland Court of Appeals Administrative Law; Enforcement: The circuit court did not err in declining to issue a writ of mandamus to enforce a legally erroneous order of an administrative law judge which called for the Motor Vehicle Administration to ...

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