State v. Houston

State of Maryland v. James S. Houston, No. 37, September Term, 2025. APPELLATE JURISDICTION – COLLATERAL ORDER DOCTRINE – DISQUALIFICATION OF STATE’S ATTORNEY This appeal arises in the context of a murder trial in which the defendant was accused of murdering his then-wife with a knife. Police called to the scene found the defendant and his wife in a pool of blood, both with stab wounds, with one knife still in the wife and a second knife in between the bodies. The defendant claims self-defense. The circuit court concluded that the State’s Attorney for Anne Arundel County was likely to be a…