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Baltimore police sergeant sentenced for misconduct in office
A Baltimore police sergeant found guilty of malfeasance for using false information to obtain a search and seizure warrant was sentenced Monday to three years of supervised probation, according to the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office. Sgt. Dennis...
Tags: Justice System, Baltimore Police Department, Lawyers, Prosecution
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In Florida, timely injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been...
Tags: Regional Authority, George Ryan, Executive Branch, Rick Scott, Illinois Governor
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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: Trials, Sex Crimes, Justice System, Criminal Laws, Laws
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Dwyer still doesn't get it
I strongly resent the comments made by Del. Donald H. Dwyer in regard to his arrest for operating a boat while intoxicated ("Dwyer gets 30 days in jail in boating incident," May 15). He sounds like the 5-year-old who gets caught taking a candy bar from...
Tags: Prisons
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APG employee to serve six months for stealing from youth academy
A Middle River woman was sentenced last week to six months in jail for defrauding the federal government through the Freestate ChalleNGe Academy at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Lynn Carol Williams, 56, sentenced May 6 by U.S. District Judge Richard D....Tags: Justice System, Political Corruption, Rod J. Rosenstein, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Proving Ground
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New Md. gun law misfires
Maryland passes the strictest gun control laws in the country on its law abiding citizens ("The Maryland model for gun control," May 16), yet it does nothing about those who get caught with illegal guns. Why? If you really want to cut the crime in...
Tags: Gun Control, Firearms, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control
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Annapolis prisoner admits threatening Anne Arundel judge
An Annapolis man who admitted sending a threatening letter from his prison cell to an Anne Arundel County judge who'd sentenced him to serve 10 years for armed robbery had a year and a day added onto his sentence Friday. "I will send a firebomb into...
Tags: Justice System, Judges, Annapolis, Prisons
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Ocean City cigarette smuggling ring had ties to terror groups, police say
The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived next door to each other in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and...
Tags: New York City Police Department, Organized Crime, Bankruptcy, Heroin, Ramadan
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Ads to promote new gun control law
Advertisements praising Maryland's new gun control law will appear on Baltimore-area televisions soon after the measure is signed Thursday — the first volley in a two-pronged effort to defend the legislation and the politicians who voted for it....
Tags: U.S. Congress, Gun Control, Voting, Firearms, Laws
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Key provisions of Maryland's new gun law
The new gun bill will be the first of hundreds Gov. Martin O'Malley plans to sign at a ceremony Thursday. Key provisions of the 62-page law include: - A ban on the sale of 45 types of assault weapons and their copycats. - A ban on sales of...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Gun Control, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control
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Hopefuls preparing to challenge Huff
An education advocate and a longtime state lawmaker say they are eyeing Baltimore County Councilman Todd Huff's seat. Democrat Laurie Taylor-Mitchell, an art historian and local education advocate, said she has decided to run for the four-year term in...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Health Insurance Cost, Local Elections, Elections
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Dwyer will plead guilty to operating boat under the influence
State Del. Donald H. Dwyer Jr. of Pasadena, who was involved in a powerboat crash last August that injured him and several others, will plead guilty Tuesday in Annapolis District Court to operating a boat while drunk — part of plea deal that his...
Tags: Justice System, Lawyers, Transportation Accidents, Annapolis, Judges
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