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About half of US state AGs went on France trip sponsored by group with lobbyist and corporate funds

About half the U.S. state attorneys general have traveled to France for an event cosponsored by a group largely funded by companies

The Independent UK · Aug 3, 2024

Even After Legalization, Maryland Cops Wanted to Search People Based on the Odor of Pot. Legislators Said No.

Police have a long history of using the real or imagined smell of marijuana to justify outrageous invasions.

Reason · May 24, 2023

Maryland attorney general challenges Archdiocese statement on clergy abuse report, says church can release redacted abusers

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown challenged the veracity of a statement the Archdiocese of Baltimore posted on its website about a report by Brown’s office detailing decades of child sex abuse and torture by Catholic clergy in Maryland and the church’s coverup.

Tribune News Service · Apr 14, 2023

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Baltimore judge orders release of redacted Catholic church sexual abuse report

A Baltimore judge has ordered the public release of a redacted version of the Maryland Attorney General’s Office report detailing the history of childhood sexual abuse in the Catholic church.

Tribune News Service · Feb 24, 2023

Legal precedent at stake as Maryland court prepares to hear Lee family appeal over Adnan Syed case

BALTIMORE — With the Appellate Court of Maryland set to hear oral arguments Thursday morning in Adnan Syed’s ever-continuing legal journey, observers warn the court’s impending ruling could permanently change how criminal cases move through the court.

Tribune News Service · Feb 1, 2023

Baltimore judge orders Catholic clergy abuse report proceedings remain secret; no decision yet on report’s release

BALTIMORE — The legal fight over whether to make public a comprehensive report on sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests in Maryland will continue to play out behind closed doors, a Baltimore judge ruled.

Tribune News Service · Dec 23, 2022

Baltimore archbishop battled against release of abuse documents for nearly 8 years: ‘I fought the good fight’

BALTIMORE — As bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Most Rev. William E. Lori fought for nearly eight years — all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court — to prevent the wide release of information about the history of child sexual abuse in that branch of the Catholic Church.

Tribune News Service · Dec 16, 2022

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Appealing Adnan Syed’s release, Hae Min Lee’s brother asks appeals court for new hearing

BALTIMORE — After two murder trials, multiple failed appeals, 23 years in prison and a public acquittal, Adnan Syed’s legal saga is not over yet.

Tribune News Service · Dec 9, 2022

Lawyer for anonymous Catholic group previously pushed for investigation into Baltimore archdiocese

A lawyer the Catholic Church is paying to represent a group of people named in the Maryland attorney general’s report into clergy sexual abuse previously urged government investigators to look into the church’s past.

Tribune News Service · Dec 7, 2022

‘Keepers’ survivors expand arguments on why Maryland AG report into Catholic clergy sexual abuse should be public

BALTIMORE — Women featured in “The Keepers,” a 2017 Netflix documentary series about clergy sexual abuse at a Baltimore-area Catholic girls school in the 1960s and ‘70s, expanded on their request Friday for the full public release of a report examining sexual misconduct by clergy throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Tribune News Service · Dec 2, 2022

‘Keepers’ survivors file court motion to seek full release of Maryland AG report on Catholic Church abuse

BALTIMORE — Abuse survivors who were featured in “The Keepers,” a widely viewed 2017 Netflix documentary about clergy sexual misconduct at a Baltimore Catholic girls’ school in the 1960s and ’70s, have filed a court motion calling for the full release of a report by the Maryland attorney general on…

Tribune News Service · Dec 1, 2022

Local prosecutors have not charged officers in any of the police-involved death investigations completed by Maryland attorney general’s office

BALTIMORE — Local prosecutors have not charged officers in any of the police-involved fatalities that the attorney general’s office has completed investigations for, according to an inaugural yearly report released Tuesday by the office’s unit that probes police killings statewide.

Tribune News Service · Nov 29, 2022

Baltimore archdiocese paying attorney costs for members of group seeking to seal court proceedings in clergy abuse investigation

BALTIMORE — After saying it would not oppose the release of a report detailing decades of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Maryland, the Archdiocese of Baltimore is helping to pay lawyers for an anonymous group that’s asked a city judge to keep secret arguments over whether to make…

Tribune News Service · Nov 29, 2022

A Catholic priest told a church official he was attracted to teens. They told him not to 'worry about it'

BALTIMORE — In the 1980s, Father Brian Cox told an official with the Catholic church he had a problem — he was attracted to teenage boys.

Tribune News Service · Nov 22, 2022

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Reason · Nov 20, 2022

Bowie knife statutes 1837-1899

Bowies were regulated like other knives; knives were sometimes regulated like handguns

Tribune News Service · Nov 19, 2022

Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese ‘does not object’ to release of report detailing sexual abuse, so long as it is accurate

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore does not oppose the Maryland Attorney General’s Office’s efforts to make public a report detailing sexual abuse and torture committed by area priests and laypeople over 80 years, so long as it is accurate, a spokesperson for the church said Friday.

Sports Illustrated · Nov 18, 2022

Maryland AG Announces Settlement Agreement With Commanders

The team agreed to pay a penalty for failing to return deposits to season ticketholders.

The Independent UK · Nov 17, 2022

Maryland probe finds 158 abusive priests, over 600 victims

An investigation by Maryland’s attorney general has identified 158 Roman Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Baltimore accused of sexually and physically abusing more than 600 victims over the past 80 years

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Tribune News Service · Nov 17, 2022

Maryland AG investigation finds more than 600 victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests

BALTIMORE — More than 600 people were sexually abused over the past 80 years at the hands of Catholic priests assigned to the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and the church actively helped to cover up many of the abuses, a report from the Maryland Attorney General’s Office found.

Tribune News Service · Nov 9, 2022

Dan Rodricks: Sound and fury over Adnan Syed case, but are we any closer to the truth about Hae Min Lee’s murder?

The Adnan Syed case has delivered us to a strange place: A chief prosecutor, who happens to be under federal indictment for perjury, suddenly asks a judge to overturn the conviction of a man in a high-profile murder case from 23 years ago. Defending her decision, the prosecutor accuses a…

Tribune News Service · Nov 1, 2022

Note that freed Adnan Syed and revealed ‘alternative suspect’ in Hae Min Lee’s death was misinterpreted, its author says

BALTIMORE — The author of the decades-old handwritten note Baltimore prosecutors cited as central to their argument to overturn Adnan Syed’s murder conviction in September now says his note was misinterpreted.

Tribune News Service · Oct 28, 2022

Retired Baltimore judge who presided over Adnan Syed’s murder trial says substantial evidence supported his conviction

BALTIMORE — A jury’s finding that Adnan Syed was guilty of murdering Hae Min Lee was supported by the evidence, the retired judge who presided over Syed’s trial in 2000 states in an affidavit filed late Thursday night.

WEKU · Oct 20, 2022

Maryland officials order the reinvestigation of about 100 deaths in police custody

The review follows an audit of police-involved deaths under the tenure of former Chief Medical Officer David Fowler, who testified that George Floyd's death was caused by heart disease and drug use.

The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2022

Maryland audit to focus on 100 in-custody police deaths

Maryland will conduct detailed reviews of about 100 autopsies of people who died in police custody involving physical restraint

Tribune News Service · Oct 11, 2022

Baltimore prosecutors drop charges against Adnan Syed, as last-ditch DNA tests exclude him

BALTIMORE — Adnan Syed, the man whose legal saga rose to international renown because of the hit podcast “Serial,” is free.

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