Defendants

Alleged BGF leader Tavon White will be moved to U.S. custody

2013-05-17 15:18:00

Tavon White, the alleged leader of the Black Guerrilla Family at the Baltimore City Detention Center, will await trial in federal custody out of state, his attorney said Friday. A federal judge ordered him moved from state custody Friday after a hearing...

BGF jail corruption alleged months before indictment

2013-05-08 17:37:00

Months before a federal indictment detailed allegations of corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center, the smuggling and sexual improprieties at the core of that case had already been outlined in an inmate's lawsuit. Calvin Hemphill, in a...

D.C. officer with Howard ties arrested in money-laundering case

2013-05-08 07:13:00

A Washington, D.C., police officer was charged Tuesday with money laundering in connection with an alleged drug-trafficking scheme in the Pittsburgh and Baltimore areas. Federal authorities say more than $2 million in proceeds from cocaine was hidden....

Jury will hear confession tape in Baltimore murder case

2013-05-07 20:10:00

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge ruled that a jury will be able to hear the taped confession of a teenage defendant in a murder case, rejecting his lawyers' claim that the police had coerced the statement from him. Markell Shelton Jones and his mother,...

Child rapist asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear his case

2013-04-26 14:15:00

A lawyer for John Joseph Merzbacher, a former Catholic school teacher imprisoned for raping a student decades ago, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his case after a federal appeals court rejected an earlier argument that he should be set free....

In Texas, black means future danger

2013-05-05 04:00:00

If the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it'll be because he is black. Well, mainly it will be because in 1995, he shot his ex-girlfriend, Debra Gardner, and her friend, Kenneth Butler, to death at Gardner's Houston home, and also wounded his own...

Federal lawsuit alleges kickbacks at Northrop real estate firm

2013-05-02 18:22:00

A Howard County couple is suing one of the largest residential real estate brokerages in the state and a Columbia title company for more than $11 million, alleging that the firms had financial ties that violated federal law. The case is a proposed class...

Tavon White, alleged jailhouse gang leader, pleads not guilty

2013-04-29 19:23:00

Tavon White, the accused Baltimore jailhouse leader of the Black Guerrilla Family gang, pleaded not guilty Monday to allegations that he oversaw a corruption scheme that employed corrections officers to smuggle drugs, cellphones and other contraband...

Espinoza Perez sentenced to life in prison in child killings

2013-04-29 16:06:11

A Baltimore judge sentenced Policarpio Espinoza Perez to life in prison Monday for conspiring to murder his brother's two children and their young cousin nearly a decade ago in a killing described as the "most horrific" to ever come before the court. The...

Did that really happen? In America?

2013-04-28 05:00:00

My periodic "Did You Know" columns tend to raise the blood pressure of more conservative readers who are embarrassed/angry/frustrated by the increasingly aggressive counter-cultural policies of the hard left and their allies in Hollywood, on campus, and...

Furloughs begin for federal public defenders

2013-04-03 18:37:46

Federal public defenders will begin taking furloughs this week because of forced spending cuts, raising concerns that reduced schedules will strain an already overburdened court system and compromise rights to adequate counsel and speedy trial. In one of...

Federal authorities indict alleged gang members, jail guards

2013-04-24 08:01:00

A cabal of corrupt corrections officers and members of the Black Guerrilla Family gang enjoyed nearly free rein inside the Baltimore City Detention Center, federal authorities allege, smuggling drugs and cellphones into the jail and having sexual...

A Turkish man tries to enter a courthouse as Turkish gendarmerie block the road in Silivri near Istanbul where prosecutors are scheduled to deliver their final arguments in the case against 275 people accused of plotting to overturn the Islamic-leaning government.

2013-03-11 00:00:00

A defendant identified as Andreas S. hides his face from photographers as his murder trial begins in Hildesheim, Germany. The 37-year old father admitted to killing his four children, ages 5, 7, 9 and 12, with a knife as they slept.

2012-10-10 11:13:00

The ex-wife of defendant and former butler Emanuel Nicolescu shields herself from media cameras after testifying in federal court in New Haven. The vicitm, Anne Bass, is also testifying today in the attempted extortion trial of her former butler.

2012-03-20 00:00:00