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Maryland abortion law is clear
There are flagrant, undefined loopholes in Maryland's abortion law. That's what letter writer Jeffrey D. Meister, director of administration and legislation for Maryland Right to Life, would have us think ("Maryland has de factor abortion on demand,"...
Tags: Maryland General Assembly, Laws, Abortion
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Benjamin Lipsitz, 94, Pikesville attorney who defended Bremer
Benjamin Lipsitz, whose commitment to the spirit and letter of the law led him to defend a would-be assassin, a Nazi sympathizer and a craven murderer during a career that spanned more than a half-century, died May 10. He was 94. "He was so...
Tags: Lawyers, University of Baltimore, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Judges, Criminals
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Man who raped 13-year-old gets four life sentences
A Baltimore judge sentenced a man convicted of repeatedly raping a 13-year-old girl in an East Baltimore vacant home to life in prison four times over plus an additional 25 years. Alvin Ray Wright Sr., 50, was convicted at trial in February on three rape...
Tags: Lawyers, Sex Crimes, Trials, Laws, Punishment
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Maryland has de facto abortion on demand
I read with interest Del. Samuel I. "Sandy" Rosenberg's critique of Marta Mossburg's interpretation of abortion law ("Mossburg wrong on Md. abortion law," May 9). Though the lawyer-politician has great knowledge and experience in many areas of Maryland...
Tags: LeRoy Carhart, General Practitioners, Laws, Abortion, Elkton
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O'Malley names Anne Arundel top prosecutor to Parole Commission
Longtime Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Frank R. Weathersbee is retiring from the position he’s held for 25 years to become a member of the state’s Parole Commission. His appointment was announced Wednesday by Gov. Martin O’...
Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Judges, Laws, Criminals
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Life sentence cut to 40 years in death of Glen Burnie dentist
Nearly seven years after she admitted that she plotted to have her boss killed in his Glen Burnie office to cover up thefts from his dental practice, Shontay Joyner Hickman had her life sentence reduced Thursday to 40 years in prison for testifying...
Tags: Court Preliminary, Trials, Glen Burnie, Laws, Dentistry and Dental Health
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County Council approves use of Tasers in Anne Arundel
It will soon be legal to own a Taser or stun gun in Anne Arundel County, following a vote by the County Council on Monday. Council members voted 4-3 to legalize the devices, which use an electric shock to disable another person. The bill was sponsored...
Tags: Weaponry, Glen Burnie, Laws, Laura Neuman
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Prosecutor can't show accused cannibal criminally responsible
Harford County's top prosecutor said Wednesday that he does not have enough evidence to show that Alexander Kinyua is criminally responsible for killing a family friend and eating his organs last year. A state psychiatric hospital previously found that...
Tags: Lawyers, Harford County, Court Preliminary, Schizophrenia, Morgan State University
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Suspect in fatal City Hall crash released without charges
A car hurtled off the highway, fatally struck a pedestrian and overturned in front of City Hall and scores of downtown witnesses. A day later, police said the driver had walked free without charges. Despite anger and outrage from those who knew Matt...
Tags: Lawyers, Bernard C. Young, Motorvehicle Accidents, Baltimore Police Department, Italy
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Prison homicides highlight futility of new gun laws
I noticed with all the gun control talk and various politicians knocking each other over for the microphone to create a new law to save lives, those same politicians failed to do the same for the seven inmate deaths in the last seven months ("Senate gives...Tags: Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Laws, Interior Policy, National Rifle Association of America
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Officer who put camera in Glen Burnie High bathroom won't be charged
Anne Arundel County police said Tuesday that no criminal charges will be filed against an officer who placed a camera in a boys' restroom at Glen Burnie High School. But the officer involved in the incident, who was not identified, remains on...
Tags: Glen Burnie, Criminals, Laws, Police Investigations
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Killings in Md. prisons defy efforts to improve security
Phyllis Scott was waiting for the day her son would be released from prison to return to East Baltimore, and she hoped he could steer clear of trouble in the future. But that day never came. Malcolm Jerrod "Rod" Pridget, who was just shy of his 20th...
Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Death Penalty, Martin O'Malley, Punishment, Prisons
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