Okezie v. Prince Georges Co., MD, Ptf's Mtn. for Sanctions for Spoliation, Police Brutality, 2014 Case 8:13-cv-00168-DKC Document 57-1 Filed 02/18/14 Page 1 of 12 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND BOLARINWA OKEZIE * * * * * * CASE NO. 8:13-cv-00168 DKC * * …
Sharp v. Baltimore City Police Department, MD, Settlement, First Amendment, Recording Officers, 2014 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE This Settlement Agreement and Release (hereinafter "Settlement Agreement") is entered into by and between Mayor & City Council of Baltimore (the "Mayor and City Council"), Baltimore Police Department ("BPD"), Christopher Sharp ("Sharp") and …
Maryland Court of Appeals Upholds Breathalyzer DNA Seizure by The Maryland Court of Appeals upheld the denial of a criminal defendant's motion to suppress DNA evidence used to convict him of manslaughter. In December 1995, Jacqueline Tilghman was raped and murdered. Semen found on vaginal and anal swabs was turned …
Maryland Police Covertly Spy on Peace, Anti-Death-Penalty Groups by Documents uncovered by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maryland show that undercover officers from the Maryland State Police infiltrated peace activist and anti-death-penalty groups to monitor their activities. The documents were publicly released after the ACLU obtained them from …
Maryland Prisoner Gets Sentence Reduction Credits for “Special Project” Work by Bradford Holup, a Maryland state prisoner, received special training to do blood-spill cleanup work and did that kind of work for over two years in Maryland prisons. Blood-spill cleanup work qualifies as “special project” work for which prisoners are …
Comingling of Meanest and Greenest Prisoners Ordered to Cease in Maryland Prisons by A Maryland federal district court ordered prison officials at the Maryland State Penitentiary and the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center (MRDCC) to devise an efficient classification system to identify prisoners at risk of rape, and to …
Former Maryland Governor Acknowledges Politics Behind Life Means Life Policy by Parris Glendening, who served as Maryland's governor from 1995 through 2002, has acknowledged, around a decade later, the role that politics played in his adoption of a "life means life" policy that effectively ended early release for prisoners sentenced …
Maryland Repeals Death Penalty by Christopher Zoukis On May 2, 2013, Maryland became the sixth state in six years to abolish the death penalty, and the 18th state – along with the District of Columbia – that has rejected capital punishment. Maryland is the first Southern state to forgo executions …
Maryland Prisoner Challenges State Indecent Exposure Laws by A divided Maryland Supreme Court affirmed in May 2012 the holding of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County in a case wherein a Maryland state prisoner sought to establish that enacted indecent exposure legislation intended for circumstances found in a prison setting …
Federal Court Upholds Maryland Law that Reclassifies Prisoners for Redistricting by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 23, 2011, a Maryland federal district court three-judge panel upheld a state law that counts prisoners as residents of their legal home address rather than their prison address for redistricting purposes. …
$60,411 Attorney Fee Award in Maryland Prisoner’s Public Information Act Suit by The State of Maryland has agreed to pay more than $60,000 in attorney fees to settle a longstanding lawsuit brought by a prisoner who had requested public records pursuant to the state’s Public Information Act. While incarcerated at …
Petitions of Salih et al, MD, Pet Joint Reply to Memo, DOC ban on media interviews with prisoners, 2013.pdf PETITION OF * ROBERT MORGAN,# 273-810 * CIRCUIT COURT FOR FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE DECISION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES * ANNE ARUNDEL …
Maryland Women Prisoners Sew Commemorative 1812 Flags by In July 2011, prisoners at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup were busy sewing 1812-style flags to be flown at Maryland public buildings. The plan was to replace the state’s old flags with the 1812-style flags, which have 15 stars …
Maryland DOC Rescinds Ban on Prisoner’s Book by On July 20, 2011, the Maryland Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services (DPSCS) rescinded its ban on The Marshall Plan: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, a memoir co-authored by Maryland state prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway and Dominque …
Army Scientist Paid $5.8 Million to Settle Anthrax Accusations Defamation Suit by In 2002, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft called Army scientist Steven Hatfill a "person of interest" in a deadly 2001 anthrax mailing case. Six years later, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) paid Hatfill $5.8 million to settle …
Maryland: Off-Duty Deputies Liable for Mass Purchase of Newspaper Critical of Sheriff on Eve of Election by In 2004, on remand from the Fourth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland held that neither qualified nor statutory immunity shielded off-duty deputies from liability for damages for making …
Qualified Immunity Upheld in Maryland Prison Employees’ Suit over Strip Search Following Positive Ion Drug Scan by Employees and independent contractors at the Maryland Correctional Center Training Center were subjected to search by a portable ion scanning machine in an attempt to interdict drugs being smuggled into the facility. Eight …
Sharp v. Baltimore City Police Department et al, MD, DOJ letter re Recording Police, seizure of phone for arrest video, 2012 U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division JMS:TDM:RJO DJ 207-35-10 Special Litigation Section - PHB 950 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington DC 20530 May 14, 2012 Mark H. Grimes Baltimore …
State of Maryland v. Brightful et al, MD, Order, Drug Recognition Expert Protocol, 2012 03/05/2012 13:30 From: .A :"~_ #210 P,002/038 I! I Ii ii IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR CARROLL COUNTY II Ii 1j ii' I, "" Ii Ii 11 STATE OF MARYLAND v, IIII II II I' I …
U.S. Supreme Court Limits Edwards Rule by Brandon Sample In Edwards v. Arizona, 451 U.S. 477 (1981), the Supreme Court held that statements made to police during an interrogation following a request for counsel are presumed invalid. The so-called Edwards rule was designed to protect the safeguards afforded by Miranda …
