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Maddi O’Neill covered trial courts and the business of law for The Daily Record from June 2022 through April 2024. She is now a freelance contributor.
She previously covered courts for her hometown paper, the Erie Times-News, in Erie, Pennsylvania. Her stories have won numerous awards in both Pennsylvania and Maryland, including first place in breaking news and investigative reporting. Her writing on the criminal justice system has also appeared in Vox.
Recent Articles from Madeleine O'Neill
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September 14, 2022
Judge postpones Mosby’s trial, citing last-minute expert disclosures from defense
The federal trial against Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has been delayed again.
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September 13, 2022
Grace Speights takes a look at the future of the workplace in MSBA talk
Grace E. Speights, a partner at Morgan Lewis, will speak Wednesday as part of the Maryland State Bar Association's 125th anniversary speakers series.
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September 13, 2022
Late expert disclosures could force delay in Mosby’s trial, prosecutors say
Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's trial is set to begin Monday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore if it is not delayed.
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September 8, 2022
4th Circuit declines to hear Ravenell bail request en banc, but several judges dissent
The judges of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have voted not to reconsider a request for bail from Baltimore defense lawyer Kenneth W. Ravenell.
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September 7, 2022
Judge’s rulings on motions go largely against Mosby, but feds can’t mention earlier probes
A federal judge denied the majority of pretrial motions brought by Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby and granted key prosecution motions at a hearing Wednesday.
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September 6, 2022
Victor Velazquez leaving MSBA after 5 years at the helm
The Maryland State Bar Association announced that its executive director, Victor L. Velazquez, will leave the organization.
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September 4, 2022
Baltimore mother reaches grand jury, capping lonely battle to prosecute police in son’s death
A Northeast Baltimore mother's last-ditch effort to have officers who killed her son prosecuted culminated last week in Baltimore Circuit Court.
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September 1, 2022
Appeals court: EMT not an ‘agent of the state’ when questioning suspect
Maryland's Court of Special Appeals ruled that a suspect's incriminating statement to an emergency medical technician was admissible in court even though the man did not receive a Miranda warning.
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August 31, 2022
Baltimore poised to settle another GTTF evidence-planting lawsuit
Baltimore's Board of Estimates will vote on a six-figure settlement to end a civil rights lawsuit stemming from allegations that members of the corrupt Gun Trace Task Force planted a gun on a man.
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August 30, 2022
Maryland high court declines to strengthen legal standard for harmless error in criminal cases
Maryland's top court reaffirmed the decades-old standard for determining whether a trial court's error during a criminal case was harmless in an opinion issued late last week.
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August 29, 2022
Dog owners challenge Prince George’s pit bull ban in federal court
Several dog owners are challenging Prince George's County's ban on pit bulls in federal court with a proposed class-action lawsuit.
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August 26, 2022
Family plans to sue over death of Baltimore man shot after confronting squeegee workers with bat
The family of a Baltimore man who was fatally shot when he confronted a group of squeegee workers with a baseball bat last month plans to sue over his death.
