A day after the three-year anniversary of Jacquelyn Smith’s murder, her husband, Keith Smith, sat as a defendant before a 12-person jury on Dec. 2 and listened as witness testimony…
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Co-defendants accused of a non-fatal drive-by shooting rejected plea offers during reception court on Oct. 13 at Baltimore City Circuit Court. Christopher Brown, 21, and Kion Henry, 22, are charged…
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Two co-defendants accused of murdering a well-known advocate for the homeless are moving closer to trial. Baltimore residents Brelan Handy and Kenneth Smith were arrested more than one year ago…
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Multiple homicide cases filled Thursday’s docket in Baltimore City Circuit Court, including two pairs of homicide co-defendants from incidents in 2020. Baltimore residents Brelan Handy and Kenneth Smith were arrested…
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Darrell Morton, 37, was among the defendants coming before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland on Jan. 29 to consider his homicide case. Morton and his co-defendant Kalim…
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Kenneth Craig, 61, was set for sentencing on Jan. 21 after he was found guilty of fatally stabbing his girlfriend, but the proceeding was postponed pending new information about Craig’s…
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A Baltimore man is expected to serve 50 years in prison for killing the mother of his unborn child after accepting a plea offer from the prosecution on Jan. 13….
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Defense counsel for the accused killer of 32-year-old John Parrish said she believes her client’s case “is not going to be a trial,” but will resolve once she retrieves “mitigation…
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On Dec. 12, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Schiffer sentenced an unruly homicide defendant to life in prison, suspending all but 30 years with five years supervised probation. William…
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A jury has found 31-year-old Reginald Peay III guilty of fatally shooting his on-again, off-again girlfriend on Dec. 6. That despite defense counsel’s claims of self-defense about what happened on…
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On Dec. 12, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer sentenced a homicide defendant to life in prison, suspending all but 25 years with five years under supervised probation….
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The prosecution said an on-and-off again boyfriend’s claim of self-defense doesn’t justify murder in a Dec. 6 trial before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Alan C. Lazarow. Reginald Peay III, 31,…
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A murder defendant took the stand and claimed he barely knew the victim during his trial on Dec. 5 in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The suspect, 31-year-old Reginald Peay, is…
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Despite an unrecovered murder weapon, a Baltimore City prosecutor argued on Dec. 2 that 35-year-old Lenora Alston was shot and killed by defendant Reginald Peay III with the victim’s legally-owned…
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A 23-year-old defendant accepted a plea agreement on Nov. 22 before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Yolanda A. Tanner. Derek Steele III, is charged with first-degree murder, firearm use in…
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Murder co-defendants Donta Lomont Taft and Tyree Derelle Wells appeared in a reception court hearing before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland on Nov. 22. The pair received…
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A Baltimore City prosecutor said the State’s Attorney’s Office intends to retry the murder case against 24-year-old Garry Morris and join his case with his co-defendant’s following a mistrial in…
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A quarantine at Baltimore City jail has delayed the Circuit Court proceeding for a defendant who is expected to plead guilty to a hit-and-run that killed 42-year-old Heidi Rose on…
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A jury found 60-year-old Kenneth Craig guilty of second-degree murder on Oct. 2 after his girlfriend was found brutally stabbed to death in Baltimore City’s Brooklyn neighborhood in 2023. Craig…
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A crime analyst testified the death of a woman was a homicide in a hearing on Sept. 26 in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The defendant, 60-year-old Kenneth Craig, is charged…
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Openings for a jury trial began on Sept. 25 before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Hope Tipton for a man charged with the murder his girlfriend last year. Kenneth Craig,…
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A 20-year-old Baltimore man was found guilty of attempted first-degree murder among other assault and weapons charges on Aug. 28 for his role in last year’s shooting in the Mondawmin…
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Closing arguments were delivered in the trial of a 20-year-old defendant before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge John A. Howard on charges stemming from a shooting incident on Dec. 29,…
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Baltimore Police detectives investigating the shooting outside Mondawmin Mall last December gathered a lot of information, but, according to defense attorney Natalie Finegar, determining the identity of the shooter left…
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