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Md. high court weighs state’s questioning of defendant’s silence
Prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a subsequently convicted first-degree murderer by questioning him at trial about what he did not tell police after invoking his right to remain silent, a defense attorney told Maryland’s top court Tuesday.
Kennedy Krieger seeks dismissal of sibling suit over lead-paint abatement study
ANNAPOLIS – An attorney for Kennedy Krieger Institute told a skeptical Maryland high court Tuesday the research facility owed no legal duty to siblings of participants in its controversial 1990s […]
Md. high court weighs if MPIA requires disclosure of supervisor’s notes
Maryland’s top court heard competing slippery-slope arguments Monday as it considered whether a state agency supervisor’s personal notes about an employee must be disclosed to the worker under the Maryland Public Information Act.
Oaks’ name stays on primary ballot, Md. high court rules
Former state senator Nathaniel T. Oaks’ name will remain on primary election ballots next month despite his desire – and that of a group of voters in his Baltimore district — that it be withdrawn.
NY attorney disbarred for unlicensed practice of law in Maryland
A New York attorney was disbarred by the Court of Appeals for his conduct while representing two clients in Maryland.
Md. high court: Stop imputing contributory negligence to car owners
Maryland judges will no longer visit the sins of a driver upon the vehicle’s owner with regard to contributory negligence claims, the state’s top court has ruled unanimously in overturning its own precedent that had imputed negligence in such cases.
Baltimore attorney disbarred for misappropriation, fabrication
Stephen H. Sacks was disbarred by per curiam order immediately after oral arguments on March 6.
Md. high court: Drug dog reliability decisions get deference
Appellate courts must defer to a trial judge’s determination that a drug-sniffing dog was reliable unless that finding was clearly wrong, Maryland’s top court has ruled in setting the review standard for the often-decisive factor in whether police had probable cause to search a vehicle.
Md. high court finds trunk search constitutional
Police officers were constitutionally justified in searching a car’s trunk for illegal drugs despite only finding them in a passenger’s possession during a traffic stop in Germantown and after a fruitless search of the vehicle’s interior, a divided Maryland high court ruled Friday.
Md. high court upholds missing-witness instruction
Maryland’s top court has declined to bar trial judges from ever instructing jurors that they may infer a criminal defendant’s culpability from a promised witness’s failure to testify at trial.
Md. top court: Tort claims act covers gross negligence
A Maryland law limiting the state’s liability for injuries caused by its employees applies even when the workers were grossly negligent, the state’s top court unanimously ruled Thursday.
Md. high court upholds set-to-music victim impact statement
A videotaped, set-to-music victim impact statement designed to stir a sentencing judge’s emotions does not violate a convict’s federal constitutional right to due process...
