A jury convicted Jerrod Smith, 22, of voluntary manslaughter in a case that hinged on whether the defendant was trying to protect other people from a knife-wielding man on drugs or wrongly targeting his victim. Read more »

Baltimore City Circuit Court jurors listened to opening statements in the case of a 22-year-old Poppleton resident who, according to the defense, saved two women by killing a high “knife-wielding maniac” inside a southwest Baltimore residence last winter. Read more »

Baltimore resident Kilo Byrd was attempting to protect his mother when he shot his stepbrother, defense attorney Andrew Saller said at the start of his client’s jury trial on Dec. Read more »

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