Top court orders new trial for man serving life term  

Posted: 7:00 pm Sun, February 28, 2010
By Steve Lash

Judges presiding over criminal trials must accept the defense’s request to ask prospective jurors if they would be more skeptical of witnesses for the defendant than for the prosecution, Maryland’s highest court has held. Friday’s decision by the Court of Appeals overturns Charles F. Moore Jr.’s attempted-murder conviction and life sentence. The trial judge had ...