Law digest – 1/28/15
MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Criminal Procedure, Probation: Probation agent’s instruction — that defendant, who was released early from prison subject to mandatory supervision, comply with a condition of...
View ArticleOpinions – 2/5/15: Maryland Court of Appeals
Contract Law Letters of intent BOTTOM LINE: Letter of intent was enforceable as a binding contract because the plain language of the letter demonstrated that the parties intended to be bound and it...
View ArticleLaw digest – 2/5/15
MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Contract Law, Letters of intent: Letter of intent was enforceable as a binding contract because the plain language of the letter demonstrated that the parties intended to be...
View ArticleOpinions 2/18/15: Maryland Court of Special Appeals
Criminal Procedure Jury instructions BOTTOM LINE: In defendant’s trial for murder, attempted murder and assault, circuit court erred in giving the jury a supplemental instruction on transferred...
View ArticleOpinions – 2/26/15: Maryland Court of Appeals
Labor & Employment Exhaustion of internal union remedies BOTTOM LINE: When a union member claimed that his union and a fellow union member were liable for defaming him and sought monetary damages,...
View ArticleOpinions – 2/26/15: Maryland Court of Special Appeals
Criminal Law Resisting arrest BOTTOM LINE: Evidence was sufficient to support defendant’s conviction for resisting arrest where jury credited police officers’ testimony that, when arresting officers...
View ArticleLaw digest – 3/5/15
MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Criminal Law, Rule of Lenity: Where there were two overlapping, but not identical, criminal offenses prohibiting individuals previously convicted of certain drug-related...
View ArticleOpinions – 3/12/15: Maryland Court of Appeals
Criminal Procedure Eyewitness identification BOTTOM LINE: The extrajudicial photo identification of the defendant was not impermissibly suggestive where the photographs of four of the six individuals...
View ArticleRONALD QUITMAN ELLIS v. STATE OF MARYLAND
In 1981, Ronald Quitman Ellis (“Ellis”) pled guilty to five counts of first-degree murder and one count of manslaughter, and the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County imposed sentences for these...
View ArticleLaw digest – 4/1/15
MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Criminal Procedure, Consecutive sentences: Where defendant was given consecutive sentences for multiple convictions arising from the same armed robbery, Court of Special...
View ArticleLaw digest – 1/28/15
MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Criminal Procedure, Probation: Probation agent’s instruction — that defendant, who was released early from prison subject to mandatory supervision, comply with a condition of...
View ArticleOpinions – 2/5/15: Maryland Court of Appeals
Contract Law Letters of intent BOTTOM LINE: Letter of intent was enforceable as a binding contract because the plain language of the letter demonstrated that the parties intended to be bound and it...
View ArticleLaw digest – 2/5/15
MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Contract Law, Letters of intent: Letter of intent was enforceable as a binding contract because the plain language of the letter demonstrated that the parties intended to be...
View ArticleOpinions 2/18/15: Maryland Court of Special Appeals
Criminal Procedure Jury instructions BOTTOM LINE: In defendant’s trial for murder, attempted murder and assault, circuit court erred in giving the jury a supplemental instruction on transferred...
View ArticleOpinions – 2/26/15: Maryland Court of Appeals
Labor & Employment Exhaustion of internal union remedies BOTTOM LINE: When a union member claimed that his union and a fellow union member were liable for defaming him and sought monetary damages,...
View ArticleOpinions – 2/26/15: Maryland Court of Special Appeals
Criminal Law Resisting arrest BOTTOM LINE: Evidence was sufficient to support defendant’s conviction for resisting arrest where jury credited police officers’ testimony that, when arresting officers...
View ArticleLaw digest – 3/5/15
MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Criminal Law, Rule of Lenity: Where there were two overlapping, but not identical, criminal offenses prohibiting individuals previously convicted of certain drug-related...
View ArticleOpinions – 3/12/15: Maryland Court of Appeals
Criminal Procedure Eyewitness identification BOTTOM LINE: The extrajudicial photo identification of the defendant was not impermissibly suggestive where the photographs of four of the six individuals...
View ArticleRONALD QUITMAN ELLIS v. STATE OF MARYLAND
In 1981, Ronald Quitman Ellis (“Ellis”) pled guilty to five counts of first-degree murder and one count of manslaughter, and the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County imposed sentences for these...
View ArticleLaw digest – 4/1/15
MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Criminal Procedure, Consecutive sentences: Where defendant was given consecutive sentences for multiple convictions arising from the same armed robbery, Court of Special...
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