Appellants filed a Motion to Stay Sale of Property in which they argued that appellees, trustees for HSBC Bank, did not properly engage in loss mitigation as they declined to consider loan modification as a means of avoiding foreclosure.

Tagged with: foreclosure Montgomery County Real Estate Sept. Term 2013 Thieme

Summary judgment affirmed, as there were no facts in dispute and, even if there were, the judgment could be affirmed on the basis of the exculpatory clause in the lease or the assumption of risk doctrine.

Tagged with: charles county Real Estate Sept. Term 2013 Thieme

Day contests the motions court’s ruling that he lacked standing to challenge the seizure of the handgun from the motel room he paid for. The State agrees.

Tagged with: criminal procedure evidence Prince George's County Search and seizure Sept. Term 2013 Thieme

Appellant contends that the motions court erred because he was subject to the functional equivalent of interrogation without the benefit of having been read his rights pursuant to Miranda v. Arizona,

Tagged with: baltimore city criminal procedure evidence Miranda Sept. Term 2013 Thieme

Appellant presents the following questions for our consideration: I. Did the trial court err by refusing to instruct the jury on the defense of mistake of fact? II. Did the trial court err in instructing the jury on the defense of honest belief?

Tagged with: criminal procedure jury instruction Sept. Term 2013 Thieme Wicomico County

The court sentenced appellant, as a subsequent offender, to one year with all but ten days suspended for driving while impaired, and sixty days, concurrent, for refusing to take a breathalyzer test.

Tagged with: criminal procedure sentencing Sept. Term 2013 Thieme washington county

The Circuit Court for Montgomery County, sitting as a juvenile court, found appellant, Juwan S., to have been involved in the theft of a bottle of fruit punch.

Tagged with: juvenile court Montgomery County Sept. Term 2014 Thieme

Did the trial court err in not merging appellant’s conviction for first-degree assault into his conviction for involuntary manslaughter or, alternatively, did the trial court err in not merging his conviction for involuntary manslaughter into his first-degree assault conviction?

Tagged with: assault baltimore city criminal procedure manslaughter merger of sentences sentencing Sept. Term 2013 Thieme

Appellants filed a pro se Motion to Vacate Judgment on the ground of fraud pursuant to Rule 2-535(b). Their fraud allegation was based upon a claim that they never entered into a contract with the party named as plaintiff. In its response, the bank admitted that it had incorrectly stated its own name through “a scriveners error."

Tagged with: baltimore city civil procedure contracts fraud-mistake-or-irregularity lending Sept. Term 2013 Thieme

Convicted of kidnapping and related crimes, Bekele asks this Court to review rulings that constrained the scope of the defense cross-examination of a prosecution witness.

Tagged with: cross-examination evidence impeachment Sept. Term 2013 Thieme Wicomico County