Kevin P. Clark, apparently, still wants his job back. Though he declined to comment on the proceedings, the former Baltimore City Police Commissioner was in Annapolis Thursday as the Court of Appeals considered whether then-Mayor Martin O'Malley had the authority to remove Clark from office in November 2004.
People who bring a criminal complaint to a Maryland District Court commissioner in Baltimore will soon have to meet with a prosecutor within a few days of lodging the charges or risk having the case dropped before trial, according to a plan announced Wednesday by two of the city's newest criminal justice leaders. Judge John R. Hargrove Jr., who became the city district court's administrative judge a year ago, and State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein, who took office in January, say the new policy will lighten the caseload of minor disputes between neighbors and family members and benefit crime victims by allowing prosecutors more time to work on the most deserving claims.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- The mayor of Baltimore exceeded his authority when he fired the police commissioner, Maryland's second- highest court has ruled. Mayor Martin O'Malley fired Commissioner Kevin Clark in November 2004, saying domestic abuse allegations against the commissioner, although unsubstantiated, had become a distraction to fighting crime.
Despite explicit instructions from federal immigration officials, a county District Court commissioner released a British citizen charged with a driveway resurfacing scam in Pasadena. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Thursday they now have no way to track down Patrick Delaney, 24, whose visa expired May 5.
The Maryland Insurance Administration's authority over premium financing companies got a boost Tuesday from the state's highest court, which found the commissioner has implied power to issue cease- and-desist orders against companies that charge too much interest on Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund policies. The Court of Appeals also rejected the companies' claims that their challenge to a 2008 cease-and-desist order should have been transferred to the Office of Administrative Hearings rather than decided by a deputy insurance commissioner.
Gov. Martin O'Malley has appointed nine people, including the son of Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., to judgeships in Baltimore City and Anne Arundel and Montgomery counties. Maryland Parole Commissioner Thomas V. Miller III will serve on the Maryland District Court in Anne Arundel County, while Deputy State's Attorney Laura S. Kiessling and lawyer Ronald H. Jarashow were named to the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. Assistant Attorney General Kendra Y. Ausby, District Judge Videtta A. Brown, Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles J. Peters and lawyer Stephen J. Sfekas were named to the Baltimore City Circuit Court. District Judge Cheryl A. McCally and lawyer Joseph M. Quirk will serve on the Montgomery County Circuit Court.
A Baltimore-based financial publisher has asked the city circuit court to quash the Maryland Security Commissioner's subpoenas to brokerage firms seeking information about its subscribers. Agora Inc. calls the commissioner's subpoenas of Fox Investments/ Man Securities Inc. and other brokerage firms nothing more than a back-door attempt to obtain lists of Agora's subscribers after the same court ruled last year that those lists are protected from disclosure.
Criminal defendants have a right to counsel when their bail is set, Maryland's top court unanimously held on Wednesday. Without finding a constitutional guarantee, the Court of Appeals said the state's Public Defender Act entitles defendants to have a lawyer present at the initial bail hearing. "What the Court of Appeals has done is end the system of incarceration without representation," said Michael Schatzow, the Venable LLP attorney who argued the case on behalf of defendants seeking counsel. A majority of the Court of Appeals also rejected the Office of the Public Defender's request for a delay so it could secure additional funding and personnel to provide representation to indigent defendants at 170,000 initial bail hearings annually. "The public defender's asserted defense of bud...
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