A judge’s too-quick mistrial declaration bars state from retrying defendant, who was charged with assault and illegal gun possession, Maryland high court says.
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Read More »May 29, 2017 Comments Off on Md. high court: Double jeopardy applies to too-quick mistrial declaration
A judge’s too-quick mistrial declaration bars state from retrying defendant, who was charged with assault and illegal gun possession, Maryland high court says.
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Read More »December 21, 2015 Comments Off on New trial for Porter set for summer
The retrial for Officer William Porter, whose case concluded last week with a hung jury on all four counts stemming from his alleged role in the death of Freddie Gray, has been scheduled for June 13. The trial date for ...
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Read More »October 29, 2014 Comments Off on Court says state can also appeal retrial ruling
Saying what’s good for the defense is good for the state, a Maryland appeals court has ruled prosecutors can appeal a judge’s decision that a convict should be granted a retrial based on newly discovered evidence and a reasonable showing of “actual innocence.”
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Read More »June 5, 2014 Comments Off on Different decade, same sentence for double-murder convict
Jaron Tyree Grade, who became a symbol of justice delayed when Maryland’s top court overturned his double-murder conviction and life sentence five-and-a-half years after hearing arguments, was resentenced to life in prison Wednesday after being convicted again of the September 2003 slayings at his retrial in Baltimore County Circuit Court.
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Read More »December 18, 2013 Comments Off on State can retry suspect on P.G. murder charge
Though the decision came two days later, a trial judge validly declared a mistrial in a Prince George’s County murder case because defense counsel had said, in opening statements, that the accused offered to take a polygraph, or lie detector test, Maryland’s top court unanimously held.
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Read More »June 18, 2013 Comments Off on Retrial brings conviction in Md. officer’s slaying
EASTON — The retrial of a man convicted of murdering a Hagerstown police officer has produced the same verdict as in 1976: guilty of first-degree felony murder. Talbot County Circuit Judge Broughton Earnest announced his verdict Tuesday in the retrial ...
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Read More »May 8, 2013 Comments Off on Double-murder retrial ordered
A former death-row inmate has won a new trial on double-murder charges based on DNA testing of hair found near one of the victim’s bodies.
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Read More »July 12, 2012 Comments Off on Md. man seeks retrial in wife’s 1992 murder
FREDERICK — A Walkersville man serving a life sentence for his wife’s murder is seeking a new trial in what would be his fourth go-round in the courts. The Frederick News-Post reports Thursday that 56-year-old William Fagan claims he lacked ...
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Read More »March 29, 2012 2 Comments
A retrial began Thursday for twin brothers accused in the fatal burning of a pit bull in 2009. Prosecutors told jurors that they will prove that Tremayne and Travers Johnson set the dog nicknamed Phoenix on fire and left her ...
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Read More »March 25, 2012 Comments Off on Retrial re-ordered for murder case, 7 years later
A man serving a life sentence for first-degree murder could finally receive the new trial ordered for him seven years ago, even though the circuit court judge who vacated his conviction later changed his mind and reinstated it. Maryland’s top ...
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