Recognizing that inmates often lack email access, Maryland’s top court has ruled a prisoner’s petition for post-conviction relief is deemed filed for deadline-meeting purposes when submitted to the prison mailroom – not when the papers are received by the circuit court clerk.

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ANNAPOLIS — Until two years ago in Maryland, filing a petition for a writ of actual innocence or petitioning to test newly discovered DNA evidence were two ways a defendant could seek post-conviction relief — and potentially win their freedom. ...

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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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