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Md. high court: Hospital commitment must occur without unreasonable delay
Criminal defendants deemed incompetent to stand trial and ordered committed to a mental health facility must be transferred from pretrial detention to the hospital without unreasonable delay, lest their state […]
Maryland law applies in Section 8 evictions, high court rules
Tenants found with illegal drugs in federally subsidized Maryland apartments do not face automatic eviction, the state’s highest court unanimously ruled Monday. In its 7-0 decision, the Court of Appeals […]
High court rejects former Del. Alston’s bid to restore law license
Maryland’s top court has rejected without explanation former Del. Tiffany T. Alston’s bid to be reinstated as a lawyer following her disbarment by consent in 2013. In a one-page order […]
Md. high court clarifies signatures’ placement on wills
A widow will remain essentially shut out of her husband’s will after Maryland’s top court unanimously upheld the document’s validity despite the alleged failure of two witnesses to sign it […]
Md. high court validates alternate juror at deliberations
An alternate juror’s silent attendance during jury deliberations does not generally violate a defendant’s constitutional right to a fair trial, Maryland’s top court ruled Wednesday in upholding an attempted-first-degree-murder conviction […]
Md. high court: Spouses can decouple property without calling it ‘non-marital’
A married couple can agree that property they buy as husband and wife belongs solely to him or her without expressly stating in the agreement that the property is “non-marital,” […]
Dissension hits Md.’s top court less than 25 percent of the time
Attorneys arguing before Maryland’s top court should heed the adage that you cannot convince everyone every time, even though the Court of Appeals has been in agreement in an overwhelming […]
Md. high court breaks from other states in battered-spouse ruling
Maryland’s top court knew it was going where no state supreme court had gone before in ruling that a battered spouse who hires a hit man to kill her husband […]
Divided Md. high court overturns battered wife’s murder conviction
A sharply divided Maryland high court on Monday split along gender lines in overturning the first-degree murder conviction and life sentence of a woman who hired a man to kill […]
Md. high court: Commingled-funds defense fails with escrow
Defendants sued for allegedly converting money held in escrow to unauthorized uses cannot defend themselves simply by claiming the escrow funds had been validly commingled with other accounts, Maryland’s top […]
Md. Court of Appeals: Plea agreement does not impact illegal sentence correction
A circuit court can properly use its revisory power to add probation to a partially-suspended life sentence so that it would not be an illegal term — even when the sentence came […]
Gang membership can be considered at sentencing, Md. high court rules
A judge can consider at sentencing a convict’s membership in a gang whose violent activities are known and required of all members, Maryland’s top court has unanimously ruled. In its […]
