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‘Agitated’ Homicide Defendant Receives Another Competency Eval After Unruly Behavior in Mental Health Court

Details A judge presiding over Baltimore City Circuit Court’s mental health proceedings ordered another competency evaluation for an unruly homicide defendant who refused to speak with his defense counsel and initially... Read More

Defendant Pleads Guilty to Leaving Scene of A Vehicular Death

Details A 24-year-old woman pleaded guilty Oct. 15 for failing to return to the scene during a car collision that killed a woman. Tanee Dorothy Stokes hit 57-year-old Juanita Watson with... Read More

Shooter Sentenced to Life in Prison for Homicide in Back-to-Back Shootings

Details A 25-year-old homicide defendant who appeared before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer and was sentenced to life in prison on Oct. 11 for killing Traquarn Lewis and... Read More

Defendant’s Father ‘Played Significant Role’ in Neighbor Dispute-Turned-Shooting, Prosecutor Says

Details A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge agreed to move forward with a plea offer of time served for 24-year-old attempted homicide defendant Daykai Quarles after the prosecution revealed Quarles’ father... Read More

Attempted Murder Case Still Waits on Autopsy Report

Details An attempted murder defendant’s case was postponed again Oct. 16 after the prosecution said an autopsy for the victim won’t be completed until early December. Kimani Johnson is charged with... Read More

Accused Shooter Rejects Plea Offer, Gets December Trial

Details A non-fatal shooting case from an incident earlier this year was scheduled for trial this December following the defendant’s decision to reject a plea offer on Oct. 16. During reception... Read More

Non-Fatal Shooting Case Pushed One Week to Assign New Defense Attorney

Details A 27-year-old man accused of a non-fatal shooting in May will return to Baltimore City Circuit Court’s reception court next week once he is assigned a new defense attorney. Delvon... Read More

Stepfather Awaits Sentencing for Killing Daughter’s Boyfriend

Details A 45-year-old defendant’s sentencing for the killing of his stepdaughter’s boyfriend was postponed Oct. 11. His sentence will be delayed until February before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer B.... Read More

Man Pleads Guilty to Gas Station Murder

Details A 36-year-old man pleaded guilty to murder before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Althea M. Handy on Oct. 16. Ronald Alston pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to... Read More

Attempted Murder Defendant Rejects Plea Offer

Details An attempted murder defendant declined a plea offer during a hearing before Baltimore City Circuit Judge Anthony F. Vittoria on Oct. 15. Jonte Gilmore, 27, is charged with 62 charges,... Read More

Homicide Defendant’s Plea Hearing Postponed

Details A homicide defendant’s plea hearing was postponed from Oct. 15 to Oct. 17 in Baltimore City Circuit Court. According to documents from the District Court of Maryland, 24-year-old Gerson Diaz-Arita... Read More

Judge Postpones Trial for Defendant Who Allegedly Pushed Victim Onto Train Tracks

By Ziqi Zhou - October 15, 2024
Court | Daily Stories | Suspects | Victims |

Details A 41-year-old defendant received his new trial date before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Dana M. Middleton. Joseph White III is charged with second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and first- and... Read More

Defendant of Child Homicide Case Receives New Trial Date

By Baltimore Witness Staff - October 15, 2024
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Suspects |

Details A 22-year-old defendant received a new trial date before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Dana M. Middleton. Shaun Bullock Jr. was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree child abuse resulting in... Read More

Man Will Serve 35 Years for Alcohol-Motivated Shooting

Details A 29-year-old was sentenced to 35 years in prison for a May 2023 shooting in Baltimore City Circuit Court Oct. 11. Per the Maryland Judiciary website, Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill... Read More

Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Shooting Another During Argument

Details A 19-year-old Baltimore man will serve the next two decades in prison after he was found guilty of shooting another man during an argument last year. On Oct. 11, Rito... Read More

Aisquith Street Defendant Receives Trial Date

Details A 19-year-old defendant received a trial date after rejecting a plea offer in Baltimore City Circuit Court Oct. 11. Defendant Jamal Smothers, represented by defense attorney Judit Otvos, is charged... Read More

April Murder Defendant to Be Tried in February 2025

Details A 35-year-old received a trial date in Baltimore City Circuit Court Oct. 11. Defendant Michael Dwight Conley represented by defense attorney Marci Johnson, is charged with first-degree murder, firearm use... Read More

Attorneys’ Scheduling Conflicts Postpone Woman’s Sentencing For Friend’s Shooting

Details An Owings Mills woman’s sentencing for conspiring to shoot her friend was postponed on Oct. 11 in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Markia Vaughn, 20, was scheduled for sentencing alongside her... Read More

Manslaughter Defendant Sentenced

Details A manslaughter defendant was sentenced in connection to a 2022 death on Oct. 10 in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Donte Simms, 46, was found guilty of manslaughter in February for... Read More

Greenmount Avenue Attempted Murder Defendant Sentenced to 42 Years

Details A 38-year-old attempted murder defendant was sentenced in Baltimore City Circuit Court for his involvement in a December 2023 shooting on Oct. 9. Defendant William Harris, represented by defense attorney... Read More

At Trial, Teen Pleads Guilty to Fatally Shooting 16-Year-Old, Injuring Man

Details A day after his jury trial began, homicide defendant Paul Ray IV pleaded guilty for the killing of 16-year-old Bryson Hudson and shooting of another man last year. On Oct.... Read More

Judge Sentences Fatal Stabbing Defendant to 43 Years

Details Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lynn Stewart Mays ordered a 47-year-old murder defendant to serve 43 years for a 2023 fatal stabbing. Alphonso Ward was convicted of second-degree murder and... Read More

During Murder Sentencing Defendant Avers Innocence

Details A homicide defendant continued to maintain his innocence during his sentencing in Baltimore City Circuit Court on Oct. 11. Darries Sommerville, 30, was sentenced to life in prison for the... Read More

Attorney Claims Everything Defendant Did Was, ‘Within the Law’

Details “Everything my client did was within the law as he acted in self-defense,” a defense attorney said during his closing argument on Aug. 19 in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The... Read More