State’s attorney candidate sues opponent for seizing files  

Posted: 7:05 pm Wed, November 4, 2009
By Nicole Flatow

GREENBELT — A candidate for St. Mary’s County state’s attorney has sued the incumbent and other government officials for raiding his mother’s house the day after he filed to run, and for seizing 12 boxes of client files he kept there. John A. Mattingly Jr., who was once deputy state’s attorney, alleged that St. Mary’s State’s ...