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• Federal Judge In The Southern District Of New York Rebukes United States Attorney's Office For Failure To Disclose Exculpatory Information In United States v. Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad

  Sep 22, 2020
  On September 16, 2020, a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York ordered federal prosecutors from the United States ...
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• Maryland Court of Appeals Disbars Novice Attorney For Inadequate Representation Of His Client In A Criminal Case

  Sep 7, 2020
  On August 21, 2020, in Attorney Grievance Commission v. John Xander Yi, the Maryland Court of Appeals disbarred attorney John Yi, who had been ...
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• UPDATE - Maryland Court Of Special Appeals Reconsiders Its Opinion In Hayes & Winston v. State, Granting New Trials To Both Defendants

  Sep 3, 2020
  On August 25, 2020, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals entered a new opinion in Hayes v. State & Winston v. State (consolidated), reversing both ...
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• Maryland Court Of Appeals Holds Character Evidence Of Appropriateness With Children As Sometimes Admissible In Child Sex Abuse Cases

  Sep 1, 2020
  On August 18, 2020, in affirming the defendant’s conviction in Vigna v. State, the Maryland Court of Appeals held that a history of appropriateness ...
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• Nathans & Biddle LLP Named Best Lawyers in 2021

  Aug 27, 2020
  We are proud to announce that all Nathans & Biddle LLP Partners were recognized as among 2021’s Best Lawyers in America. Larry Nathans was also named ...
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• Maryland Court of Appeals Orders New Trial Due to Ineffective Assistance of Counsel for Counsel's Failure to Disclose a Conflict of Interest

  Aug 24, 2020
  On August 14, 2020, the Maryland Court of Appeals reinstated the post-conviction relief ordered by the Circuit Court for Frederick County, in Yaw Poku ...
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• The Black Lives Matter Movement Meets the Fourth Amendment and Federal Civil Rights Law

  Aug 17, 2020
  Two recent cases, U.S. v. Curry , 965 F.3d 313, 2020 U.S. App. Lexis 22038 (4 th Cir. 2020) (filed July 15, 2020), and Jamison v. McClendon , 2020 ...
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• Even Where Prosecution Conceded Error Warranting New Trials for Two Convicted in Killing of Locust Point Bartender, Maryland Court of Special Appeals Denies New Trial for Co-Defendant Whose Counsel Failed to Object to Court Error

  Aug 12, 2020
  In a consolidated opinion issued on August 3, 2020, resolving Tonya Hayes v. State of Maryland and Marquese Winston v. State of Maryland , the ...
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