Maryland
Maryland appellate court refuses to reconsider Adnan Syed’s sentence
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Court docket refuses to rethink Syed’s sentence
A Maryland appellate court docket on Tuesday denied a request by Adnan Syed’s lawyer to rethink its latest determination to reinstate his homicide conviction. His lawyer mentioned she’s going to enchantment to the Maryland Supreme Court docket.
BALTIMORE – A Maryland appellate court docket on Tuesday denied a request by Adnan Syed’s lawyer to rethink its latest determination to reinstate his homicide conviction. His lawyer mentioned she’s going to enchantment to the Maryland Supreme Court docket.
The Appellate Court docket of Maryland reinstated the conviction in March in a ruling that upheld arguments from the sufferer’s household claiming a decrease court docket violated their rights.
E. Gregory Wells, the chief decide of the appellate court docket, signed a short order saying that the three-judge panel that made the preliminary ruling denied Syed’s movement, “as a result of it’s based mostly on an argument not beforehand raised.”
Syed’s attorneys claimed the appellate judges broke from the court docket’s personal precedent by failing to require the sufferer’s household to show the result of the September listening to would have been completely different if they’d obtained extra discover and attended in individual. The movement additionally questions whether or not the court docket intends to award crime victims and their representatives “particular therapy not even obtainable to legal defendants.”
Erica Suter, Syed’s lawyer, mentioned she would enchantment to the state’s highest court docket.
“Appellate courts routinely assess whether or not an error impacted the underlying proceedings,” Suter mentioned in an announcement. “We’re dismayed that the Appellate Court docket of Maryland opted not to take action right here. We might be searching for evaluation within the Supreme Court docket of Maryland.”
Adnan Sayed will get emotional as he speaks to reporters exterior the Robert C. Murphy Courts of Enchantment constructing after a listening to on Feb. 2, 2023. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/The Baltimore Solar/Tribune Information Service through Getty Pictures)
Syed — whose lengthy authorized case gained worldwide consideration in 2014 from the debut season of the hit podcast “Serial” — regained his freedom final 12 months when Baltimore prosecutors moved to vacate his conviction, saying they reviewed the case and located different suspects and unreliable proof used at trial.
However the sufferer’s household mentioned they obtained inadequate discover to attend the September vacatur listening to in individual, which violated their proper to be “handled with dignity and respect,” and the state’s intermediate appellate court docket agreed. In a 2-1 determination that was stayed for 60 days, the judges reinstated Syed’s conviction and ordered a redo of the listening to in query.
Syed was 17 when his highschool ex-girlfriend and classmate, Hae Min Lee, was discovered strangled to loss of life and buried in a makeshift grave in 1999. He was arrested weeks later and in the end convicted of homicide. He obtained life in jail, plus 30 years.
Syed has remained free because the case continues.
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Maryland
Montgomery County man dies after altercation with neighbor, family seeks answers
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GERMANTOWN, Md. – A Germantown man has passed away following a heated altercation with his neighbor nearly three weeks ago.
Montgomery County police reported that 40-year-old Marvin Guevara died over the weekend at a nearby hospital.
Guevara’s family is grappling with his sudden death, awaiting the results of an autopsy to understand what led to his tragic end.
“I really thought my dad was going to make it. He’s a really strong man. WAS a really strong man,” said Marvin Guevara Jr., Guevara’s son.
Guevara Sr. had been hospitalized for 17 days, fighting for his life after an argument turned physical with his next-door neighbor.
“My dad got hurt really bad,” added Guevara Jr.
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According to Guevara Jr., who rushed to their home on Bucklodge Road in Boyds upon learning of the incident, his father was dizzy and struggling after sustaining multiple punches to the head during the dispute.
Police indicated that the altercation escalated when a female neighbor confronted Guevara about his dogs, which had wandered into her backyard.
The confrontation turned violent when the neighbor allegedly struck Guevara in the head.
Guevara’s daughter-in-law, who witnessed the incident, described the neighbor as attacking him from behind, causing him to collapse.
Video footage captured the tense aftermath, with voices heard urging Guevara to leave their property.
FOX 5 reached out to the neighbor for comment, who responded defensively, claiming Guevara had been trespassing.
Despite the family’s grief, no arrests have been made yet.
Police are awaiting the results of the autopsy from the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore to determine the official cause of Guevara’s death.
“He was a wonderful person; always smiled. He was always there for others – always had a good heart,” Guevara Jr. remembered his father.
Maryland
Team Maryland Announces $2.5 Million to Bolster School-Based Medicaid & CHIP Services for Children – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin, David Trone, and Glenn Ivey (all D-Md.) today announced $2.5 million in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services funding to bolster school-based health services for Maryland children.
Made available through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the federal dollars will be used to enhance facilities, recruit health care providers, and develop systems to further reinvest in growing school-based health care offerings for students. School-based health care allows children and adolescents – especially those in underserved communities – to access critical primary, preventive, mental, and behavioral health care in convenient, trusted settings, and has been shown to have positive impacts on both the health and academic outcomes of students.
“Investing in the health and wellbeing of our children is an investment in our future,” said the lawmakers. “Team Maryland has long fought to secure stronger, more expansive health benefits for children, particularly through Medicaid and CHIP, and this federal funding will help further that mission.”
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Maryland
Warm and bright weather ahead of unsettled pattern in Maryland
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