Criminal Justice

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office had taken a “two-faced position” that is “at odds with justice” in its efforts to preserve the conviction of a man arrested by a member of the Gun Trace Task Force.

A crash involving a fire truck sent multiple people to the emergency room around 8 p.m. Friday.

Keith Luckey, 40, of Baltimore County, stood trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges including second-degree murder in the killing of Kevin Torres, which happened outside ChrisT bar, on East Lombard Street near South Haven Street in Highlandtown, on Nov. 7, 2022. He was 35.

“I think of what she could have done with her life,” said Joyce Malecki’s brother, Darryl, as he discussed the FBI exhuming her body Thursday. He hopes there will soon be a break in the 1969 killing, which was investigated in the Netflix series, “The Keepers.”

Michael Tates, a security guard at ChrisT, a club on East Lombard Street near South Haven Street in Highlandtown, testified on Thursday in Baltimore Circuit Court about what led up to the deadly shooting of Kevin Torres on Nov. 7, 2022.

A former teacher remembers what it was like being in the classroom a week after 26 people were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut on Dec. 14, 2012.

The FBI announced Thursday that it had completed the exhumation of Joyce Malecki from Loudon Park Cemetery. The Netflix documentary “The Keepers” explored whether Malecki’s murder was connected to the killing of Sister Cathy Cesnik in the early 1970s.

Police arrested a man in connection to the August crash that took the life of Robert Horne, who had pulled over on the elevated highway to assist with a disabled vehicle.

More than three dozen men, identified only by their initials, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the state and the Department of Juvenile Services, alleging they were sexually abused as young boys while in the custody of the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School in Parkville.

Policymakers at every level have failed to address conditions in Baltimore’s underserved neighborhoods that continue to harm Black children, Kevin Mcleod, a longtime children’s advocate and coach, says.

Maryland’s state judiciary is accepting applications to replace a circuit court judge who was killed earlier this year by a man whose divorce case the judge was presiding over, authorities have said.

Keith Luckey faces charges of second-degree murder, use of a handgun during the commission of a crime of violence, reckless endangerment and related offenses in the deadly shooting of Kevin Torres on Nov. 7, 2022.

The National Public Defender Workload Study was released on Sept. 12 and is a collaboration between the RAND Corp., National Center for State Courts, American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defense and Law Office of Stephen Hanlon in St. Louis.

Frank and Caroline LaPere plan to keep Pava's memory alive.

The officers are under investigation by the Office of the Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division after a high-speed chase and deadly crash in Pasadena early Thursday morning.

A man from Severn received a suspended sentence a year of probation after pleading to a hate crime in connection with the destruction of Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ Pride Flags outside a church in Odenton last spring, Anne Arundel County prosecutors announced Friday.

20 women have filed a lawsuit against Maryland and its Department of Juvenile Services alleging rampant sexual abuse as children while incarcerated at the state’s Thomas J.S. Waxter Children’s Center in Laurel.

An Anne Arundel County police officer identified as Corporal A. Stallings on Oct. 29 critically injured an unnamed man, who fell and hit his head after he was stunned with a Taser.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Jeannie J. Hong described the facts and circumstances surrounding the death of 4-year-old Malachi Lawson as “unfathomable.”

Two people were killed and 28 others were wounded on July 2 in the mass shooting, which happened after 12:30 a.m. at the Brooklyn Homes housing project in Baltimore.