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Judge Schedules Shooting Defendant’s Trial in Towanda Avenue Case

Details Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer scheduled a trial date on Dec. 7 for an attempted murder defendant after he rejected the plea agreement offered by the prosecution.... Read More

Judge Declares Mistrial in First-Degree Murder Trial

Details On Nov. 13, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Martin P. Welch declared a mistrial in the first-degree murder case of Levar Attura Octavies Cooper. Cooper, 45, who is represented by... Read More

Judge Grants Motions Hearing for Teenage Double-Homicide Defendant

Details On Nov. 15, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland heard defense attorney Howard Cardin request a motions hearing to join three cases facing 18-year-old Jabre Griffith. The defendant... Read More

Lawyers Argue Over Credibility of Absent Witness at Homicide Retrial

Details Although a witness who identified a 45-year-old homicide defendant as a suspect did not physically appear, attorneys debated the trustworthiness of his testimony admitted from a previous trial. Levar Attura... Read More

Witness Who Identified Accused Killer Won’t Testify in Retrial

Details Evidence in the murder trial of 45-year-old Levar Cooper will leave jurors with more questions than answers, according to defense counsel Michael Tomko, as the only witness who identified his... Read More

Judge Sets Trial Date for Three Co-Defendants Facing First-Degree Murder Charges

Details On Oct. 12, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa M. Phinn scheduled a trial for three codefendants, Raquan Baylor, Kamar Robinson and Darian Adams in connection to the June 2019... Read More

‘The Past Is Prologue to the Future,’ Says Judge Before Sentencing Boarman Avenue Shooter

Details Emotions were high during the Sept. 27 sentencing of a defendant found guilty in connection to a non-fatal hooting incident on Boarman Avenue. Jarell Speaks, 21, was charged with attempted... Read More

Judge Postpones Trial for Trio Accused of 2022 Murder

Details On Sept. 11, a prosecutor and attorneys for three co-defendants charged with murder appeared to postpone the scheduled jury trial that was before a Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Charles... Read More

Three Charged With Pimlico Road Murder Get Separate Trial Dates in 2024

Details Separate trials for each of the three co-defendants charged with the murder of 21-year-old Amare Burrus will begin in late-January 2024. Darrean Fleming, Wesley Lambert and Garry Morris are all... Read More

Counsel’s Recovery Delays Trial for Roosevelt Park Shooting Defendant

Details On Sept. 15, a jury trial in a shooting case l before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lawrence R. Daniels had to be rescheduled so the defense attorney could recover... Read More

Judge Continues Hearing for Codefendants in Pimlico Road Homicide Case

Details On July 19, a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge scheduled a jury trial for three codefendants accused of murdering a 21-year-old Amare Burrus. The defendants, Wesley Lambert, Garry Morris and Darrean Fleming, appeared before Judge... Read More

Trial Begins for 20-Year-Old Man Accused of Boarman Avenue Mass Shooting in 2022

Details Chaos erupted along Boarman Avenue on May 10, 2022, when gunfire rained down upon a group of people. A year later, on June 27, a Baltimore City prosecutor argued that... Read More

Judge Schedules Washington Boulevard Homicide Retrial for November

Details On June 23, a 45-year-old defendant charged with murder in 2021 was scheduled to have his retrial in November. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa M. Phinn scheduled a three-day retrial for... Read More

Details A Baltimore City prosecutor will not pursue the case of an alleged drug deal turned botched armed robbery against 19-year-old Kearie Crawford, instead, placing his case on the Circuit Court’s... Read More

Homicide Defendant’s ‘Final Judgement Is to Come’ for Drug-Related Shooting in 2020

Details Homicide defendant Chance Taylor was sentenced to ten years of incarceration on May 9 after moving forward with a plea offer rather than a retrial. A jury acquitted the 24-year-old... Read More

Defense Argues for Defendant’s Bail Release Given Prosecution’s ‘Horrible Evidence’ in 2022 Pimlico Road Shooting

Details Defense counsel for 23-year-old Darrean Fleming argued that the prosecution’s alleged evidence against his client was insufficient as it does not confirm the identity of the shooter responsible for the murder of... Read More

Quintuple Shooting Suspect Gets June Trial Date for Attempted Murder on Boarman Avenue

Details A 20-year-old man had a summer trial date set on Jan. 11 for his alleged role in a quintuple shooting on Boarman Avenue last year. A Baltimore City prosecutor offered Jarell... Read More

Case Dismissed Against Defendant Accused of Shooting Man in Face

Details A young man accused of shooting a 50-year-old man in the face had his case dismissed on Jan. 9. Montoya Cure Jr., 19, was originally charged with attempted first and... Read More

Man Denied Bail after Hung Jury in 2020 Murder Trial

Details Although acquitted of first-degree murder in October, 24-year-old homicide defendant Chance Taylor appeared for a bail review on Dec. 20 after the jury was unable to give a unanimous verdict... Read More

Retrial for Trio Accused of Murder Set for Late 2023 After Hung Jury Results in Mistrial

Details A mistrial was declared on Dec. 15 in the case of three co-defendants charged with the murder of 33-year-old Antonio Lamont Jackson after the jury was unable to make a... Read More

‘This Was An Execution,’ Prosecutor Tells Jury in Three-Defendant Murder Trial

Details Ten loud claps, one right after the other, echoed in the Mitchell Courthouse in Baltimore City Circuit Court on Dec. 7 as a prosecutor mimicked the ten gunshots that killed 33-year-old... Read More

Plea Decision Delayed As Defense Finishes Reviewing Discovery

Details Defense counsel for attempted homicide defendant Marcel Moses asked the prosecution to keep its plea offer open on Sept. 22 to give him time to finish reviewing discovery before his client makes... Read More

19-Year-Old Homicide Defendant Acquitted of All Charges After Retrial

Details After less than a day of jury deliberation, Tracy Allen Jones was found not guilty of fatally shooting 21-year-old Davron Dorsey outside the EZ-Shop Grocery store in June 2019. A... Read More

Jury Begins Deliberations in 2019 Execution-Style Murder

Details “There’s not just one doubt. There are many doubts,” defense attorney Michael Tomko said during closing arguments on Sept. 12. “This is a modern day who-done-it.” His client, Tracy Allen... Read More