Thirty years ago, the attorney for a missing Baltimore baby argued for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that would force the mother to reveal the youngster’s whereabouts despite her asserted constitutional right against self-incrimination. Mitchell Y. Mirviss said Thursday that ...

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A divided federal appeals court this week provided a lesson in why husbands should never answer for their wives as it upheld a Riverdale man’s firearms convictions. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a law enforcement officer did ...

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Defendants’ voluntary statements to police after invoking their right to remain silent can be used to impeach their contrasting testimony at trial, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Monday in upholding the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence of a man who chose to take the stand in his own defense.

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ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top court will consider whether prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a subsequently convicted first-degree murderer by questioning him at trial about what he did not tell police after invoking his right to remain silent. The Court ...

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A group of Maryland criminal defense lawyers has pledged its support for a U.S. Supreme Court review of a Silver Spring man’s murder conviction, saying the justices should hear more criminal appeals from state high courts that raise federal constitution ...

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A Silver Spring man convicted of murdering an old friend has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn the conviction, saying police failed to honor his constitutionally protected request for a lawyer made well before they began questioning ...

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George Mason's president defends naming law school for Scalia leads news items including Grim Sleeper trial, $940 million trade-secrets verdict and Miranda under fire.

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By the slimmest of majorities, Maryland’s top court Friday upheld the first-degree murder conviction of a man who shot to death a University of Maryland student in 2011.

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With the victim’s mother holding a photo of her slain son before the judges, a lawyer for a University of Maryland student’s convicted killer urged the state’s high court Tuesday to overturn his first-degree murder conviction.

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