In re: Misc. 4281
Court of Special Appeals, Leahy, Dec. 2, 2016,
Fifth Amendment – A Grand Jury may subpoena a public agency’s internal investigative reports containing coerced self-incriminating statements of its employees, even where those statements may not be used at trial.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MICHAEL T. RAND
US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Gregory, August 26, 2016,
Closing Argument – Prosecutor commentary on defendant’s wealth (“You just heard a story alright. It took a lot of gold. A lot of gold. The defendant’s lawyers, all of them, his experts, a lot of gold.”) was improper, but given the weight of the evidence against the defendant the error was harmless.