A 2014 candidate for Baltimore City sheriff was charged with campaign finance violations Friday by the Office of the State Prosecutor. Richard Parker, 41, of Gwynn Oak, was a Democratic challenger to longtime Sheriff John W. Anderson in the 2014 ...

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A Baltimore County grand jury indicted former superintendent S. Dallas Dance on Tuesday for allegedly not reporting on financial disclosure statements more than $140,000 in income he received from companies working with the county school system. Dance was charged with four counts ...

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With enactment a foregone conclusion, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony Wednesday on legislation that would repeal Maryland’s lifetime ban on convicted perjurers from testifying in court.

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The Maryland Senate voted Friday to repeal the state’s lifetime ban on convicted perjurers from testifying in court.

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The Maryland General Assembly must repeal the state’s lifetime ban on convicted perjurers from testifying in court, as the prohibition enables violent criminals to prey with impunity on victims who were caught lying in the distant past, the Hogan administration and a Democratic senator told legislators Tuesday.

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CHICAGO — The question about how far lawyers can go in providing clients the strongest defense underlies a rare trial coming to a close in Chicago, where prosecutors accuse a prominent attorney of coaching defendants and witnesses to outright lie. ...

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Irish court declines extradition leads news summary that includes man imprisoned without conviction, trying children and purported perjury in Pennsylvania.

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Bcause the Court of Appeals addressed the same issue about Kopera’s perjury and held, in Douglas v. State, 423 Md. 156, 165 (2011), that a hearing was required, we conclude that the circuit court erred in denying Carver a hearing on his petition for a writ of actual innocence.

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Detective Fata contends he was prohibited from mounting a proper defense to perjury, misconduct in office and workers’ compensation fraud, due to evidence erroneously admitted for the purpose of impeaching Fata.

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A Maryland woman faces a perjury charge in Virginia stemming from the investigation of the 1975 disappearance of two young sisters.

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