ANNAPOLIS — An audit has found the state’s public defender has not been thorough enough to determine financial eligibility of clients requesting a public defender. The audit, which was released Tuesday by state auditors, says the office’s policies did not ...

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A year and a half after a three-member board of trustees fired Maryland’s public defender — a controversy that led to legislative reform — most of the new 13-member board gathered in Annapolis on Friday afternoon for their first meeting, ...

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Sometimes you just can’t win. My fantasy football team is a prime example. I lost again this week, despite having the second-highest score in the league. Granted, this is the first season I’ve played fantasy football, so I’m cutting myself ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s top court last week grappled with whether a woman’s fear of the consequences if she did not submit to her assailant was objectively reasonable, in order to show he committed a sexual offense “by force or threats ...

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