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Baltimore killer urges justices to hear ineffective-assistance claim
A convicted murderer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn his conviction because his attorney failed to request a jury instruction on the defense of alibi after […]
Frosh urges justices to decline Germantown murderer’s appeal
Maryland’s attorney general has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence of a woman who killed her husband’s ex-wife in Germantown seven […]
Justices show interest in hearing Germantown murderer’s appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court has shown interest in hearing the appeal of a woman sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree murder of her husband’s ex-wife in Germantown seven […]
Justices decline Westminster robber’s ineffective-counsel appeal
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a convicted Westminster armed robber’s argument that his trial attorney’s failure to exclude from the jury a juror who had acknowledged potential […]
Westminster robber makes final plea for Supreme Court review
In a final plea for the Supreme Court to hear his appeal, a convicted Westminster armed robber told the justices Monday that his trial attorney’s failure to exclude from the […]
Maryland urges justices to reject ineffective-assistance appeal
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear a convicted armed robber’s argument that his conviction should be overturned because his defense attorney […]
Supreme Court declines Adnan Syed’s appeal
“Serial” podcast subject Adnan Syed will stand convicted of the first-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend in Maryland. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Syed’s appeal of his […]
Justices show interest in self-represented robber’s appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court has shown an interest in potentially hearing a self-represented Marylander’s argument that his armed robbery conviction should be overturned because his defense attorney failed to exclude […]
Frosh urges Supreme Court to reject Syed’s appeal
Maryland urges high court to deny Adnan’s Syed’s appeal, saying counsel’s failure to investigate alibi witness did not affect podcast star's murder conviction.
Md. court overturns murder conviction, citing right to public trial
Maryland’s second-highest court Friday overturned the second-degree murder conviction of a man accused of beating his girlfriend to death in Dundalk, saying the trial judge unconstitutionally barred the defendant’s family […]
Md. high court hears state’s appeal in ‘Serial’ star Syed’s case
ANNAPOLIS — Attorneys for Maryland and for podcast star Adnan Syed battled Thursday before the state’s top court as it considers whether he was denied effective assistance of counsel when […]
Criminal defense lawyers back Syed before Md. high court
Criminal defense counsel has an ethical duty to contact potential alibi witnesses identified by clients regardless of whether the testimony would fall within the lawyers’ trial strategy, many well-known Maryland defense attorneys argued this week in urging the state’s top court to order the retrial of convicted murderer – and podcast star – Adnan Syed.
