After deliberating for nearly four days, a Baltimore jury today found a community activist guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of his pregnant wife outside a courthouse where she…
The question that a jury must soon decide is not whether community leader Cleaven Williams stabbed his pregnant wife to death outside a Baltimore courthouse in 2008, minutes after she…
Prince George’s County, Md., does not have a policy requiring female criminal defense lawyers and other jail visitors to remove their bras before going through a metal detector.
Convicted of drunken driving last year following an accident that caused minor injuries to another driver, a 68-year-old Maryland judge who acknowledges a long history of alcoholism has now agreed…
A tax lawyer for the Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee has become a high-profile target in an unusual public dispute over his refusal to give his ex-wife…
A suspect has been indicted in the slaying of an undercover police informant who was murdered after an FBI report identifying him by name was reportedly circulated throughout his Baltimore…
Once upon a time, in Maryland as in many other states, motorists pulled over for speeding or other moving violations got a randomly issued court date along with their ticket,…
Lawyers who charge by the hour tend to discourage clients from seeking advice that can potentially prevent bigger problems from developing in the long run.
A retired in-house lawyer’s announced intent to rely on claimed legal advice from outside counsel in defending against criminal accusations of wrongdoing concerning her work at GlaxoSmithKline raises tricky privilege…
Six notaries who worked for two Maryland law firms have lost their commissions as an apparent result of a continuing probe into who signed documents in mortgage foreclosure cases, although…
A motorcyclist who was jailed and charged with violating Maryland’s wiretap law after he used a helmet cam to film the state trooper who had pulled him over for speeding…
A federal judge has dismissed an unusual “reverse redlining” lawsuit in which Baltimore contends Wells Fargo Bank’s subprime mortgage loans cost the city tax revenue by targeting minority homeowners for…
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