As we mentioned last week, there are a few bills that did not make it through the recently concluded General Assembly session that we hope lawmakers will take a second look at next year. Please revisit: SB 265/HB 559 Probation Not Deportation. Probation before judgment enables nonviolent first-time offenders to enter a guilty plea .
Now that the dust has cleared on the 2022 legislative session, the Editorial Advisory Board of The Daily Record would like to recognize a few bills that we were particularly happy to see passed. Next week, we’ll urge the General Assembly to take a second look at a few others next year. Thanks for passing: .
The unprecedented leak of a draft opinion authored by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito overruling the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade and thus permitting state legislatures to decide the legality of abortion sent a shock wave through the national legal establishment like few other incidents involving the court. Lawyers of all stripes, journalists who .
This spring marks the end of Donald Tobin’s eight-year tenure as dean of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Tobin joined the law school at time of great turmoil, both internally, as the 2008 recession led to significant declines in law school enrollment, and externally, as Baltimore confronted a legacy of .