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By Robert C. Bonsib, Esq. & Megan E. Coleman, Esq. In Lawrence v. State, 257 A.3rd 588 (2021), the Court of Appeals (COA) was called upon to answer the following question: Is wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun on or about one’s person a strict...
DRONE SURVEILLANCE INVADING YOUR PRIVACY AND SOME FOURTH AMENDMENT THOUGHTS By Robert C. Bonsib, Esq. and Megan E. Coleman, Esq. Transitioning from the days of rotary phones and TV sets that carried only three channels to the current era where it seems that there is a...
Defining Consent in Rape and Sex Offense Prosecutions
By Robert C. Bonsib, Esq. and Megan E. Coleman, Esq. This article will do a deep dive into Woodlin v. State, implications of the opinion, and practice pointers for practitioners and judges. This summer, the Maryland Supreme Court decided Woodlin v. State,...
By Robert C. Bonsib, Esq. & Megan E. Coleman, Esq. In Reyes v. State, 257 Md. App. 596 (2023), Reyes was convicted by jury of attempted first-degree murder. The victim of the shooting, Daniel Bartley, made both a pre-trial and in-court identification...
By Robert C. Bonsib, Esq. & Megan E. Coleman, Esq. In a 2015 article captioned "Authenticating Evidence Found On Social Media and In Cell Phones - It's Complicated" we discussed a number of appellate opinions dealing with the introduction of cell phone...
Challenges of Remote Video Trials and Hearings & Effect on the Right to Confront WItnesses through Effective Cross-Examination
By Robert C. Bonsib, Esq. MarcusBonsib, LLC In December, 2019 I posted a blog reviewing a decision of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals ("COSA") in which the COSA affirmed the conviction of Lawrence Montague. At Montague's trial, the prosecution was permitted to...
By Robert C. Bonsib, Esq. & Megan E. Coleman, Esq. As Judge Moylan begins the Court's opinion in State v. White, No. 0891, SEPT.TERM, 2019, 2020 WL 5834924 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. Oct. 1, 2020) he invites us to embark on what he describes as a "three-dimensional...
THE BORDER SEARCH EXCEPTION TO THE WARRANT REQUIREMENTBy Robert C. Bonsib, Esq. and Megan E. Coleman, Esq.Attention federal practitioners! The Fourth Circuit opinion in United States of America v. Raymond Idemudia Aigbekaen, (decided November 21, 2019), in which the...
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