MARYLAND COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS  Civil Procedure, Personal jurisdiction: On remand of case from federal to state court, defendant was barred from moving to dismiss for insufficiency of service of process where a federal court summons was properly served on ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS  Criminal Procedure, Consecutive sentences: Where defendant was given consecutive sentences for multiple convictions arising from the same armed robbery, Court of Special appeals properly affirmed circuit court’s imposition of consecutive sentences because, under CR §4-204, imposition ...

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Criminal Procedure Consecutive sentences  BOTTOM LINE: Where defendant was given consecutive sentences for multiple convictions arising from the same armed robbery, Court of Special appeals properly affirmed circuit court’s imposition of consecutive sentences because, under CR §4-204, imposition of separate ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS  Criminal Law, Rule of Lenity: Where there were two overlapping, but not identical, criminal offenses prohibiting individuals previously convicted of certain drug-related crimes from possessing certain types of firearms, the prosecutor had discretion to charge the ...

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Criminal Law Rule of Lenity  BOTTOM LINE: Where there were two overlapping, but not identical, criminal offenses prohibiting individuals previously convicted of certain drug-related crimes from possessing certain types of firearms, the prosecutor had discretion to charge the defendant with ...

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Criminal Law Resisting arrest  BOTTOM LINE: Evidence was sufficient to support defendant’s conviction for resisting arrest where jury credited police officers’ testimony that, when arresting officers asked defendant to stand and place her hands behind her back, she refused and ...

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Labor & Employment Exhaustion of internal union remedies  BOTTOM LINE: When a union member claimed that his union and a fellow union member were liable for defaming him and sought monetary damages, the union’s internal remedies, which did not provide ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS  Professional Responsibility, Indefinite suspension: Court of Appeals suspended indefinitely an attorney who did not protect a client’s claim from expiration as the statute of limitations, misrepresented the status of the claim to the client for five ...

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Criminal Procedure Jury instructions   BOTTOM LINE: In defendant’s trial for murder, attempted murder and assault, circuit court erred in giving the jury a supplemental instruction on transferred intent after closing arguments because the instruction did not cure an error ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS  Contract Law, Letters of intent: Letter of intent was enforceable as a binding contract because the plain language of the letter demonstrated that the parties intended to be bound and it expressed definite agreement on all ...

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