A unit in the Maryland attorney general's office is investigating a single-vehicle crash after a police pursuit early Saturday in Baltimore County.
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Read More »October 11, 2021 Comments Off on Maryland attorney general’s office investigating fatal crash after police chase
A unit in the Maryland attorney general's office is investigating a single-vehicle crash after a police pursuit early Saturday in Baltimore County.
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Read More »March 26, 2015 Comments Off on Former deputy AG Howard joins Saul Ewing
After eight years as a deputy attorney general under former Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler, John B. “J.B.” Howard Jr. returned to private practice Wednesday as a partner at Saul Ewing LLP in the firm’s Baltimore office. Howard said his ...
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Read More »December 9, 2013 Comments Off on No-copy policy requires judge’s discretion
The state’s highest court has questioned a longstanding policy of the Baltimore City Circuit Court in custody cases, which bars attorneys and self-represented litigants from taking a custody investigator’s report out of the Family Division Clerk’s Office or even making photocopies of it.
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Read More »November 11, 2013 Comments Off on Judge’s instruction to holdout juror is criticized
A judge’s instruction to a holdout juror that he listen to his fellow jurors and consider the evidence very carefully denied the defendant a fair trial, a Maryland appeals court has said in overturning an armed robbery conviction and 40-year prison sentence.
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Read More »November 1, 2013 Comments Off on Maryland’s top court hears warrantless GPS case
Howard County police violated a motorist’s constitutional rights by secretly placing a GPS device on his car and tracking the vehicle’s movements for 11 days without a warrant, a defense attorney told Maryland’s top court Friday.
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Read More »August 19, 2013 Comments Off on Court of Appeals: Admissions can be used in trial de novo
A defendant’s admissions during Maryland District Court proceedings were admissible evidence in his trial de novo in circuit court, the state’s highest court said.
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Read More »August 18, 2013 Comments Off on Top court backtracks on conflict in sentencing laws
In a victory for prosecutors, Maryland’s top court Friday erased a long-awaited decision that had essentially struck down the state’s mandatory, no-parole, five-year sentence for handgun possession by a convicted felon.
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Read More »November 20, 2012 Comments Off on Snowden receives suspended sentence for marijuana possession conviction
A Baltimore City jury on Tuesday convicted Carl O. Snowden, the civil rights chief at the Office of the Maryland Attorney General, of misdemeanor possession of marijuana.
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Read More »July 12, 2012 Comments Off on Week in review: 7/13/12
Costs rise along with temperatures Damage such as the cracked roadway on U.S. Route 50 is making an already-expensive run of summer weather even more costly after a mostly mild Maryland winter. David Buck, a State Highway Administration spokesman, said: ...
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Read More »July 11, 2012 Comments Off on Attorney General: Pit bull law on hold
An opinion from the Office of the Maryland Attorney General could ease the mind of pit bull owners and their landlords, but an Upper Shore lawmaker cautioned that the opinion is not binding. The opinion, signed by Assistant Attorney General ...
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