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Unsuccessfully saught the Democratic nomination in the 2006 Maryland Attorney General election, receiving 44.3% of the vote to Doug Gansler's 55.7%. [6] [14] Patricia Jessamy: February 1995 – January 3, 2011: Democratic [15] — Gregg L. Bernstein: January 3, 2011 – January 5, 2015: Democratic [16] Marilyn Mosby: January 5, 2015 – January ...
Pursuant Section 3 of Article 27, to be qualified as Public Defender, a person must be an attorney-at-law, having been admitted to practice law in the State of Maryland by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, by which he or she has been engaged in the practice of law for at least five years prior to appointment. A person seeking appointment to ...
Seal as the Court of Appeals.. As the highest tribunal in Maryland, the Court of Appeals was created by Article 56 of the Maryland Constitution of 1776.The Court was to be "composed of persons of integrity and sound judgment in the law, whose judgment shall be final and conclusive in all cases of appeal, from the general court, court of chancery, and court of admiralty".
Name Term start Term end Benjamin Rumsey: 1778 1806 Jeremiah Chase: 1806 1824 John Buchanan: 1824 1844 Stevenson Archer: 1844 1848 Thomas Beale Dorsey
BALTIMORE— Maryland's Supreme Court has upheld an appellate court's decision to reinstate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, whose case gained national attention in 2014 when it was featured ...
The Circuit Courts of Maryland are the state trial courts of general jurisdiction in Maryland. They are Maryland's highest courts of record exercising original jurisdiction at law and in equity in all civil and criminal matters, and have such additional powers and jurisdiction as conferred by the Maryland Constitution of 1867 as amended, or by law. [1]
The Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA) is a voluntary bar association for the state of Maryland. [6]The association's mission is "to effectively represent Maryland’s lawyers, to provide member services, and to promote professionalism, diversity in the legal profession, access to justice, service to the public and respect for the rule of law."
First African American male (Maryland Court of Appeals): Harry A. Cole (1949) in 1977 [14] First African American male (chief judge of any Maryland court): Michael Waring Lee in 1984 [15] [16] [17] First African American male (Chief Judge; Maryland Court of Appeals): Robert M. Bell (1969) in 1996 [18] First Hispanic American male: Ricardo Zwaig ...