A sharply divided Maryland high court Tuesday refused to reinstate involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment convictions against a Baltimore mother who went to bed beside her infant and unintentionally killed the child by sleeping on her while allegedly passed-out drunk. ...

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ANNAPOLIS – The state urged Maryland’s top court Thursday to reinstate involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment convictions against a Baltimore mother who went to bed beside her infant and unintentionally killed the child by sleeping on her while passed-out drunk. ...

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Attorneys for three of the police officers charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray in April are seeking to have reckless endangerment charges dismissed because they claim failing to seatbelt a prisoner alone does not constitute a crime. ...

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PASADENA — A Maryland mother is being held on $500,000 bail after police say she left her 6-week-old daughter on the side of a road Saturday. Anne Arundel County police charged 26-year-old Sandra Clara McClary of Baltimore with child neglect ...

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1. Did the trial court commit reversible error in denying Appellant’s motion to suppress an out-of-court identification based on an improperly suggestive photo array? 2. Did the trial court violate Appellant’s Confrontation Clause rights when, during cross-examination, it denied Appellant a full and fair opportunity to explore the issue of bias?

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1. Did the trial court err by denying [a]ppellant’s objection to the flight instruction? 2. Was the evidence insufficient to prove reckless endangerment?

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TOWSON — A Baltimore police officer charged in the accidental shooting of a police trainee has been convicted of reckless endangerment. A Baltimore County jury on Thursday found William S. Kern not guilty of second-degree assault in the shooting of ...

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HAGERSTOWN — The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene says it has suspended the license of an assisted-living facility near Boonsboro after a patient with Alzheimer’s disease suffered severe injuries from allegedly falling through an unfinished floor. The agency ...

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HAGERSTOWN — The owner of a Boonsboro assisted-living center faces criminal charges and a licensing investigation after an 84-year-old Alzheimer’s patient crashed through the unfinished floor of a second-story room into the dining room below, police and state regulators said ...

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ELKTON — An Elkton woman may face prison time for giving an abortion pill ordered from an overseas website to a pregnant 16-year-old girl. Sixty-two-year-old Sandra Craine pleaded guilty last month to reckless endangerment as part of a deal with ...

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