Maryland’s top court Tuesday reinstated a murder conviction after finding a supplemental jury instruction on transferred intent was not an abuse of the trial court’s discretion. Jacob Bircher received a life sentence in 2014 after being convicted of first-degree murder ...

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A prosecutor urged Maryland’s high court last week to reinstate the first-degree murder and attempted-murder convictions — and life-sentence — of a man who remains charged with killing one and wounding another in a 2012 shooting outside an Eldersburg tavern.

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Maryland’s top court has agreed to hear the state’s request that it reinstate the first-degree and attempted murder convictions -- and life sentence --of a man who remains charged with killing one and wounding another in a 2012 shooting outside an Eldersburg tavern.

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The instruction on transferred intent was “a square peg that never fit the round hole of the State’s theory of the case,” Judge Douglas Nazarian wrote for the three-judge panel.

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