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Maryland Lawmakers Vote for Police, Prosecutor Accountability 

The Crime Report

Police departments in some Maryland counties have collective bargaining agreements that expire in June, and an extension could allow them time to sign a new agreement and not be required to adhere to the new law.

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Maryland Police Officer Arrested for Assault During January 6 Riot

The Crime Report

A Maryland police officer has been arrested on charges that he assaulted police during the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. The department has since suspended without pay and is “taking steps to terminate his employment” after his indictment on felony charges. Capitol, Michael Kunzelman reports for the Associated Press.

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Status quo watch

SCOTUSBlog

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment (as incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment) guarantees criminal defendants the right to a unanimous jury, it meant a 12-person jury — not a six-person jury, which is all that Florida affords some felony defendants. Maryland and Napue v.

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Beards and Brady (i.e., religious freedom and criminal procedure)

SCOTUSBlog

After Blankenship had already paid a $250,000 fine and served one year of imprisonment for a misdemeanor (the jury acquitted him on all felony counts), the government disclosed 61 witness interview reports. Convicted CEO asks justices whether Brady imposes a due diligence requirement on defendants. In Blankenship v. Blankenship v.

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Five cases on the January calendar include (at least) one with an adequately percolated issue

At the Lectern

Maryland (1963) 373 U.S. merge with the charged homicide and cannot be the basis for a second degree felony-murder instruction.” Chun (2009) 45 Cal.4th 4th 1172 error harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.” Link added.) In Chun , the court held “all assaultive-type crimes. ” ( Id.

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The Hunter Biden ‘Controlled Demolition’ is Complete

JonathanTurley

The gun charge looks like a serious threat for incarceration, but it is little more than a phantom felony count under which Hunter will be allowed to go into a diversion program and ultimately negate the violation. Mark Loizeaux, president and owner of Phoenix, Maryland-based Controlled Demolition Inc.,

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The Second Circuit also distinguished the Connecticut program from a Maryland regulatory scheme that the U.S. What is disputed is whether it is just or legal to convict Ward of felony crimes for acting peacefully and responsibly to prevent greater harm to the climate.” Supreme Court determined was preempted in Hughes v.

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