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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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