The D.C. Sniper Attacks were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2002 throughout the Washington metropolitan area,consisting of the District of Columbia,Maryland,and Virginia,and preliminary shootings,that consisted of murders and robberies in several states,and lasted for six months starting in February 2002. Seven people were killed,and seven others were injured in the preliminary shootings,and ten people were killed and three others were critically wounded in the October shootings. In total,the snipers killed 17 people and wounded 10 others in a 10-month span.
John Allen Muhammad was an American convicted spree killer who,along with his partner and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo,carried out the D.C. sniper attacks of October 2002,killing seventeen people. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on October 24,2002,following tips from alert citizens.
Lee Boyd Malvo,also known as John Lee Malvo,is an American convicted murderer who,along with John Allen Muhammad,committed a series of murders dubbed the D.C. sniper attacks over a three-week period in October 2002. Malvo was aged 17 during the span of the shootings. He was serving multiple life sentences at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia,a supermax prison. Muhammad was executed in 2009.
The government of Maryland is conducted according to the Maryland Constitution. The United States is a federation;consequently,the government of Maryland,like the other 49 state governments,has exclusive authority over matters that lie entirely within the state's borders,except as limited by the Constitution of the United States.
George Zerdin Medalie was an American lawyer and politician.
The 2014 Maryland gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Maryland. Incumbent Democratic governor Martin O'Malley was term-limited and could not run for re-election to a third consecutive term.
Miller v. Alabama,567 U.S. 460 (2012),was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for juvenile offenders. The ruling applied even to those persons who had committed murder as a juvenile,extending beyond Graham v. Florida (2010),which had ruled juvenile life without parole sentences unconstitutional for crimes excluding murder.
Mary Ellen Barbera is an American lawyer and jurist from Baltimore,Maryland.
Shirley Marie Watts is an American lawyer and jurist from Baltimore,Maryland. Since July 2013,she has served as a Judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals,the state's highest court. Watts is the first African American woman to serve as a judge on the Court of Appeals. Prior to her appointment,she was a judge on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals from 2011 to 2013 and an associate judge on the Baltimore City Circuit Court from 2002 to 2011.
Justin D. Ready is an American politician who has served as a member of the Maryland Senate since 2015,representing District 5 in Carroll County. He previously represented the district in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2011 to 2015.
Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr. is an American politician and businessman who served as the 62nd governor of Maryland from 2015 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party and son of three-term U.S. representative Lawrence Hogan,he also served as chair of the National Governors Association from 2019 to 2020.
David Kenani Maraga is a Kenyan lawyer and jurist. He was the 14th Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya from October 2016 until his retirement in January 2021.
Michele Denise Hotten is a justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland appointed by Governor Larry Hogan.
Daniel Lewis Cox is an American far-right politician. He is a Republican who represented the fourth district in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2019 to 2023. He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee in the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election,which he lost in a landslide,and had been endorsed by former president Donald Trump. An election denier,Cox is a staunch proponent of the disproven conspiracy theory that the 2020 United States presidential election was marred by fraud. He is currently a candidate for Congress in Maryland's 6th congressional district.
Steven Bennett Gould is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland since 2021. He served as a judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals from 2019 to 2021.
Angela M. Eaves is an American lawyer and judge. She is a justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland. She served as an administrative judge for the 3rd Judicial Circuit for Harford County from 2015 to 2022.
Matthew J. Fader is an American lawyer serving as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland since 2022. He previously served as the chief judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals from 2018 to 2022.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Maryland on November 8,2022. All of Maryland's executive officers were up for election as well as all of Maryland's eight seats in the United States House of Representatives,one of its U.S. senators,and the state legislature. Primaries were held on July 19,2022. Polls were open from 7 AM to 8 PM EST.
