On June 28, a 28-year-old homicide defendant received a trial date in reception court before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Read more »

A 39-year-old man rejected a plea offer of 50 years incarceration in Baltimore City Circuit Court May 24.  Brandon Fullard is charged with second-degree murder, firearm use in a felony violent crime, having a loaded handgun in a vehicle and on his person and having a handgun on his person for the death of 31-year-old Brian Richardson last year. Read more »

A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge accepted the guilty plea of a 19-year-old accused of participating in the 2023 Brooklyn Day mass shooting at a May 17 hearing. Read more »

Counsel in the case of 33-year-old Sterling Coleman were unable to agree upon a trial date for an attempted murder case on March 1 and planned to rectify scheduling issues on a later date. Read more »

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A non-fatal shooting outside downtown Baltimore’s the Place Lounge earlier this year was “an accidental discharge,” according to defense counsel at the start of defendant Michael Breckenridge’s trial on assault charges. Read more »

Attempted murder defendant Nyeki Glover’s statements to a detective with the Baltimore Police Department were not voluntary, according to Glover’s defense counsel at the beginning of his retrial on Aug. Read more »

A 62-year-old man accused of being involved in a non-fatal shooting appeared before Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Melissa M. Read more »

On May 30, a case for a 51-year-old woman charged with a murder that occurred in 2022 was sent to reception court after her jury trial was postponed.   Roya Hanna, who represents defendant Kanisha M. Read more »

A 44-year-old woman accused of her 4-year-old son’s death from a scalding bath is expected to plead guilty to his murder in December. Read more »

Defense counsel in the trial of attempted homicide defendant Courtney Sykes compared the length of the prosecution’s case to that of this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, telling the jurors on Feb. Read more »

Counsel is currently reassessing the plea offer for a woman charged with her son’s death in July 2019. Read more »

The Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office shared its intentions to retry the case of 33-year-old Bryan Hannah on Aug. Read more »

A 19-year-old Baltimore man accused of attempted murder pleaded guilty, accepting a plea of 3 years with two years supervised probation on May 12 before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge John Addison Howard.  James Servance was charged with four counts of first and second-degree attempted murder, four counts of first and second-degree assault, four counts of use of a firearm during a violent crime, three counts of armed robbery, three counts of robbery, reckless endangerment, three counts of theft less than $100, possession of a firearm as a minor, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, four counts of conspiracy to commit first and second-degree assault, four counts of conspiracy to commit a use of a firearm during a violent crime, three counts of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, three counts of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, and three counts of conspiracy to commit theft less than $100 in connection to an incident on Nov. Read more »

On April 21, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lynn Stewart Mays sentenced a homicide defendant to a total of 20 years in prison with 15 months of time served, following a jury trial in March.  Darrius Lemar Jordan, 33, was found guilty of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree assault in connection to the fatal shooting of Guy Thomas, 52, on Feb. Read more »