A man wrongfully jailed for 15 months as the “Charles Village rapist” is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand a $2.3 million award he received from a jury that concluded Baltimore police lacked probable cause to arrest him.

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Citing the city’s violence, attorneys for Baltimore are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a $2.3 million jury award to a city resident who was wrongfully held in jail for 15 months as the “Charles Village rapist,” saying ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Appellate courts should review anew the qualifications of drug-sniffing dogs when determining if police had probable cause to search a vehicle based on the canines’ whiff, a defense attorney said Thursday in urging Maryland’s top court to question ...

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The smell of marijuana emanating from a car gives police officers probable cause to search the vehicle, Maryland’s high court unanimously rules.

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Constitutional Law Qualified immunity BOTTOM LINE: Although it was clearly established that intrusive prison employee searches require reasonable suspicion, it was far from clear that the body-scanning devices at issue here could not meet that standard. CASE: Braun, et al., ...

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COURT OF APPEALS Constitutional Law, Waiver of counsel: Because the defendant was not informed of the range of allowable punishments for the charges against him, including applicable enhanced penalties, his waiver of counsel was invalid. Lopez v. State, No. 24, ...

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Criminal Procedure Probable cause BOTTOM LINE: Where police officers did not have probable cause to believe that defendant was in possession of controlled substances or drug paraphernalia found in a lockbox in an apartment he was visiting, the trial court ...

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After a week of trial in Baltimore City Circuit Court, it is now up to a jury to decide whether four men who were frisked and detained for about an hour in a Westside bar while another patron was arrested ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court isn’t given to offering advice to people who are breaking the law, even in a minor way. But some justices on Wednesday effectively told those who might be sitting at home smoking pot when the ...

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