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 man convicted in October for the 2015 killing of a Pimlico Race Course security guard will be tried a third time after a judge granted a motion for a new trial Monday. Keith Davis Jr., 26, was convicted of second-degree ...

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Maryland’s top court knew it was going where no state supreme court had gone before in ruling that a battered spouse who hires a hit man to kill her husband can claim imperfect self-defense, which, if successful, could turn what ...

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SALISBURY — A 22-year-old man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of another man. The Daily Times of Salisbury reports that on Thursday, a Wicomico County jury convicted Delonte Bryant in the death of 21-year-old Dommeir ...

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A Talbot County judge has declined to reopen the cases of two men convicted in 2001 of murdering an Easton woman in 1987 despite a four-year effort by the Innocence Project to obtain new trials. David R. Faulkner and Jonathan ...

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  SAN DIEGO — The stepfather of a 2-year-old Maryland boy who disappeared in San Diego 14 years ago has been arrested in North Carolina and faces a murder charge, officials say. Tieray D. Jones was arrested Monday by U.S. ...

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A man serving time for a rape conviction pleaded guilty Monday to the 1982 murder of Laurel woman nearly three years after DNA established a link between him and the victim and revived the cold case. John Ernest Walsh, 71, ...

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ROCKVILLE — A man charged with killing a survivor of a kidney transplant has been convicted of first-degree murder. The Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office said in a news release that 33-year-old Dion Sobotker of Temple Hills was convicted Tuesday ...

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The Court of Special Appeals has upheld the 2015 murder conviction of a Dorchester County man, finding prosecutors presented sufficient evidence for the jury to find a homicide had occurred even though the victim’s body was never found. William Stevens ...

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Maryland’s top court Tuesday reinstated a murder conviction after finding a supplemental jury instruction on transferred intent was not an abuse of the trial court’s discretion. Jacob Bircher received a life sentence in 2014 after being convicted of first-degree murder ...

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