Legislation to permit prosecutors to introduce at trial an accused rapist’s prior sexual assaults will head to Gov. Larry Hogan’s desk after the Senate passed the bill 46-0 on Wednesday.
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The Senate and House of Delegates appear headed to a compromise on their different versions of legislation that would permit the prosecution to introduce at trial an accused rapist’s prior sexual assaults.
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The House of Delegates on Monday passed legislation to permit the prosecution to introduce as evidence at trial an accused rapist’s prior sexual assaults.
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The Senate on Friday passed legislation to permit the prosecution to introduce as evidence at trial an accused rapist’s prior sexual assaults.
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ANNAPOLIS – Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday signed into law a long-stalled measure to enable courts to strip parental rights from a mother or father who conceived the child through non-consensual intercourse. By its terms, the Rape Survivor Family ...
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ANNAPOLIS – Prosecutors and defense counsel battled Wednesday over legislation that would permit the prosecution to introduce as evidence at trial an accused rapist’s prior sexual assaults. Appearing before a Senate committee, prosecutors called such prior bad acts evidence often ...
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ANNAPOLIS – Legislation to enable courts to strip parental rights from a mother or father who conceived the child through non-consensual intercourse will head to the governor for his signature. The House of Delegates passed the legislation Wednesday, a day ...
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ANNAPOLIS – The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee on Tuesday approved perennially introduced but annually ill-fated legislation to enable courts to strip parental rights from a mother or father who conceived the child through non-consensual intercourse. With the committee’s voice vote, ...
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ANNAPOLIS – Perennially introduced but annually ill-fated legislation to enable courts to strip parental rights from a mother or father who conceived the child through non-consensual intercourse received an unusually early hearing this General Assembly session and with broad support ...
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Prosecutors need not present expert medical testimony on an alleged victim’s mental capacity to gain the conviction of a person charged with raping someone incapable of giving consent to sexual intercourse, Maryland’s top court has ruled. However, sufficient non-medical evidence ...
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