On March 8, 2011 Maryland's House of Delegates passed a bill attempting to change the governor's role in parole decisions. Currently, the governor must approve or reject each parole recommendation the Maryland Parole Commission makes regarding prisoners sentenced to life with the possibility of parole....
D.C., Maryland Areas No Exception to Nationwide Trend Child pornography cases in the U.S. court system are up 330 percent nationwide from 1999, with law enforcement officials vigorously pursuing convictions to reign in the growing production of online child porn. The FBI investigates 2,500 new cases...
At the end of a day spent bouncing like a pinball around Baltimore's criminal justice system, Jack Rubin, defense attorney, is consoling himself with past victories. There's the 18-year-old Delaware kid who blew his best friend's head off after looting his bank account, confessed to police...
Charges were dropped Friday against Jonathan Miller, who had been accused of participating in a deadly stabbing last month after a party at the Great Blacks in Wax Museum. "This kid was a victim. ...