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Contracts — Unjust enrichment — Damages This appeal arises out of a “train wreck” sort of real estate transaction involving essentially Jason Conner, appellant, and Albert Parsons, appellee. On 6 December 2018, Parsons filed in the Circuit Court for Kent County a complaint against Conner and Conner’s father, Barry Conner. The complaint included claims for ...

Criminal procedure — Motion to suppress evidence — Prior bad act A jury in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County convicted Isaiah Kelley of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, and two counts of reckless endangerment. The court sentenced him to twenty-five years’ imprisonment for first-degree assault offense and a consecutive run term ...

Criminal procedure — Motion to suppress evidence — Prior bad act Following a bench trial in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, Curtis Lee Wootten, appellant, was convicted of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, and two counts of reckless endangerment, stemming from two separate altercations with his wife, Milissa David. On appeal, Mr. ...

Criminal procedure — Sentence modification — Justice Reinvestment Act On March 26, 2010, in the Circuit Court for Charles County, Delante Phillip Gray, appellant, pleaded guilty pursuant to a binding guilty plea agreement to distribution of a controlled dangerous substance (“CDS”) and admitted to violations of probation in two other cases. On April 19, 2010, ...

Criminal procedure — Illegal sentence — Insufficient evidence Following a 1986 trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, a jury found Vincent Cole, appellant, guilty of first-degree felony murder, burglary, daytime housebreaking, and robbery. The court sentenced appellant to life imprisonment for first-degree felony murder and merged the remaining convictions for sentencing. From the ...

Criminal procedure — Illegal sentence — Ambiguity in pronouncement Following a 2005 trial in the Circuit Court for Caroline County, a jury found Kenneth Lee Trice, appellant, guilty of second-degree assault on a correctional officer, first-degree escape, carjacking, and related offenses. The court sentenced appellant to 10 years’ imprisonment for second-degree assault, 10 consecutive years’ ...

Criminal procedure — Illegal sentence — No term of probation James William Branch, Jr. filed a Rule 4-345(a) motion to correct an illegal sentence in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County claiming that his sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment, all but 12 years suspended, for second-degree rape was illegal because the sentencing court had ...

Criminal procedure — Writ of actual innocence — Newly discovered witness In 2009, a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County found Jerel Carlos Hunter, appellant, guilty of attempted second-degree murder. The court sentenced him to 25 years’ imprisonment. Read the opinion

Criminal procedure — Writ of actual innocence — Newly discovered arrest report In 1989, a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County found Wayne Arthur Jordan, appellant, guilty of felony murder, armed robbery, robbery, use of a handgun in the commission of a felony, and use of a handgun in the commission of ...

Real property — Adverse possession — Boundary line This is an appeal from the denial by the Circuit Court for Cecil County of appellant, Patricia Watts-Dowd’s, Complaint to Quiet Title by adverse possession of land owned by appellee SJH Property Management. LLC. Following a bench trial, the court granted appellees’ counter complaint for a declaratory ...

Air travel can be difficult in the best of times, with cramped planes, screaming babies, flight delays and short tempers. Throw in a pandemic, and the anxiety level can rise quickly.

The number of people stopped from buying guns through the U.S. background check system hit an all-time high of more than 300,000 last year amid a surge of firearm sales, according to new records.

Andy Freeman, Andrew Levy and Joshua Treem, partners at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, were recognized for their work by Chambers USA. Freeman and Levy were recognized for their work in Litigation: General Commercial in Maryland and Treem was rated in Litigation: White Collar Crime and Government Investigations.

GameStop raised more than $1 billion in its latest stock sale, capitalizing on a newly arrived and fervent army of online investors.

Prominent but suspended Maryland medical malpractice attorney Stephen L. Snyder urged a federal judge to dismiss his indictment for attempted extortion.

A Maryland man pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to threatening now-President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris before last year’s election.

The economy is growing at a healthy clip, and that has accelerated inflation, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says in written testimony.

Criminal procedure — Voir dire — Privilege against self incrimination After the grant of a mistrial, Dominique Grant, appellant, was retried and convicted by a jury sitting in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City of various crimes related to the armed robbery and shooting of a man in a residential area of Baltimore. 1 Mr. ...

Civil litigation — Municipal employment — Compliance with city charter This case is before us on appeal from an order in the Circuit Court for Worcester County granting summary judgment in favor of Pocomoke City (“the City”), appellee. The lawsuit was filed by Robert Cowger, Jr. (“Cowger”), the appellant. Cowger alleged that the City violated ...