Syed, now 42, of Baltimore, served more than 20 years in prison in the killing of Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend and classmate at Woodlawn High School. Her body was found in Leakin Park in Baltimore on Feb. 9, 1999. She was 18.

Bates, 55, a Democrat who lives in Locust Point, took office promising stricter prosecution of both the most violent crimes and low-level offenses. Broad swaths of those surveyed say they support those policies.

James Weems Jr. is accused of sexually abusing four children at Lil Kidz Kastle Daycare Center in Owings Mills.

David Linthicum is charged with five counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses in the shootings of Officer Barry Jordan and Detective Jonathan Chih.

Baltimore District Judge Tameika M. Lunn made the ruling at a bail review hearing on Friday for Jason Billingsley, 32, of Sandtown-Winchester. He's charged with first-degree murder and related offenses.

Larry Worsley, a more than 20-year veteran, was acquitted on Thursday in Baltimore Circuit Court of first- and second-degree assault, use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, theft and intoxicated endangerment.

Jason Dean Billingsley, 32, of Baltimore, was taken into custody late Wednesday after multiple law enforcement agencies tracked him to a train station in Bowie.

Court records show Billingsley is a registered sex offender with three criminal convictions.

The circumstances of the killing resemble a “scenario single women worry about,” one woman said.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Robert K. Taylor Jr. last month ruled that redactions could be lifted for 43 of 46 names that were blacked out in the interim report, which came out on April 5.

On Aug. 29, 2022, Dr. John Trujillo, 67, of Harford County, a veterinarian at Pickles Light Street Animal Hospital, was working when his brother, Bobby, shot him in the right leg with a 12-gauge shotgun.

On Sept. 2, 2022, Jeremiah Brogden, a junior who was a running back on the Mustangs varsity football team, was shot and killed as classes let out at Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School. He was 17.

Oral argument in the case of the “Serial” podcast subject, whose murder conviction was thrown out in 2022 and later reinstated, is scheduled for Oct. 5.

Syed, 42, who served more than 20 years in prison in the killing of Hae Min Lee, convened reporters at his parents’ home in Baltimore County on the one-year anniversary of his release from prison to make the case for his innocence.

“We must be the guardians, ever vigilant, to ensure a fair and just system for all,” Bates told reporters at a news conference.

Chris Bendann, 39, could not agree to the stringent conditions of release that U.S. District Chief Judge James K. Bredar set in the case.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams had convicted April Gaskins, 55, of Southwest Baltimore, of reckless endangerment and firearm access by a minor, after a bench trial.

Tonya Lucas, 59, of Northwest Baltimore, was awaiting a fifth trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on arson and murder charges after a previous conviction was set aside. She had spent more than two decades in prison and will not have to serve any additional time.

Officer Steven Angelini is scheduled to be sentenced on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone and cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on Feb. 9, 2024.

Baltimore County Circuit Judge Dennis M. Robinson Jr. remarked that “drug dealing is bad enough on its own” when sentencing former Baltimore Police Officer Cejus Watson on a charge of distribution of marijuana.