Criminal Justice

After decades of unjust imprisonment, Eddie Conway returned to his community to help others, just as he had as a leader of the Black Panthers in Baltimore, says Adam Jackson, chief executive officer of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. Jackson says his own activism was inspired while observing Conway’s tireless commitment and working alongside him.

County and police leaders outlined next steps for increasing security in the area.

The need for additional state legislation means local control might not be completed until 2024.

When police officers demonstrate a lack of empathetic humanity, incidents such as the killing of Tyre Nichols occur, a reader says. A physician says Marylanders will benefit from full implementation of the state’s family and medical leave law. Any plan for Lutherville-Timonium redevelopment must rely on the area’s history and facts about issues such as zoning, the Lutherville Community Association’s president says.

A federal judge in Baltimore dismissed the charges, but not before he reproached A. Scott Bolden for spouting the same rhetoric that has made hostility the norm in federal politics.

Tre’shaun Harmon was found on East Joppa Road and Delaware Avenue, less than half a mile away from the shopping center.

Chris Bendann, 38, of Towson — who taught at the independent, private all-boys school from 2007-2023 — is charged with sexual abuse of a minor, rape, perverted practice and related offenses.

Attorney Thiru Vignarajah said 11 people were home at the time, including four children.

The Maryland General Assembly is considering legislation, backed by Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, that would mandate longer prison sentences for illegal gun possession. Heather Warnken, executive director of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform at the University of Baltimore School of Law, and Joseph Richardson, a professor of African-American studies and anthropology at the University of Maryland, say longer sentences will only serve to damage communities while having little or no deterrent effect on gun violence.

Sponsors and supporters of the bill say it would help people who were incarcerated and later released reintegrate into society and make Maryland jury pools more representative.

Sophomore Deanta Dorsey, 16, was killed in a mass shooting across the street from Edmondson High School on Jan. 4.

“I expect criminals to act like criminals,” Baltimore Circuit Judge Gregory Sampson said on Friday when he sentenced Detective Leon Riley IV. “I don’t expect police officers to act like criminals.”

The Jan. 4 shooting also wounded two 17-year-old males and two 18-year-old males.

Davis, 28, ran a red light on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Baltimore in a 2020 Lamborghini Urus and struck a 2004 Toyota Solara, hurting four people, including a pregnant woman.

The bill would increase the maximum sentence for those 21 and older for wearing, carrying or transporting a handgun without a permit from three years to five years in prison in Maryland.

The girl is at least the fifth teenage gunshot victim in the last 24 hours.

Nearly all state’s attorneys in Maryland are opposed to the measure, as are various law enforcement agencies.

Records related to the burned home highlight another way ABC Capital’s owner was enticing investors — and that business model is also coming under scrutiny.

Martin Linthicum says his younger brother, accused in the shootings of two Baltimore County Police officers in separate incidents, spiraled downward in an abusive household.

Linthicum is accused of shooting two officers and leading police on a three-day manhunt last Wednesday that stretched from Baltimore County to Harford County .