Maryland judges can sentence juveniles convicted of murder to life in prison with the chance for parole without first considering the killer’s youth and related circumstances, the state’s second-highest court has ruled. Such individualized considerations are required only before a ...

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Litigation over the constitutionality of Maryland’s treatment of juvenile offenders sentenced to life in prison was referred to a federal magistrate judge for a settlement conference last week but the parties will still proceed with a months-long discovery process. U.S. District ...

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Gov. Hogan opposes bill to take parole decisions for life-sentenced inmates away from the governor and leave the determinations solely with the parole board.

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Attorneys can proceed with lawsuit claiming Maryland is unconstitutionally holding juvenile offenders who are now adults under de facto life sentences.

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Jaron Tyree Grade, who became a symbol of justice delayed when Maryland’s top court overturned his double-murder conviction and life sentence five-and-a-half years after hearing arguments, was resentenced to life in prison Wednesday after being convicted again of the September 2003 slayings at his retrial in Baltimore County Circuit Court.

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A man serving a life sentence plus 170 years for two Baltimore murders will get a new trial after Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Tuesday that his attorney was improperly denied a chance to cross examine a key prosecution witness.

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NEWARK, N.J. — A defense attorney who once had a roster of celebrity clients and boasted of having tried hundreds of cases in federal court was sentenced there on Monday to life in prison without parole after his conviction on ...

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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad on Monday commuted the mandatory life sentences of 38 convicted killers who committed their crimes as juveniles, a move aimed at ensuring they will spend decades in prison rather than be released earlier because of a ...

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HAGERSTOWN — A West Virginia man has been sentenced in Hagerstown to life in prison for murdering his former girlfriend. Forty-four-year-old Randy McPeak of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., was sentenced Tuesday. A prosecutor says McPeak must serve at least 15 years ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Gov. Martin O’Malley is moving toward commuting two prisoners’ life sentences, the first time the governor has done so in his administration. Mark Farley Grant, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1984 after being convicted of ...

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