Happy Monday and welcome back!

• Was a man shot in Mount Vernon the victim of a hate crime? HT: Baltimore Crime.
• Who would buy meat from a van, anyway?
• Letting 300 people out of pre-trial lockup every month would save $10 million a year? Page Croyder is skeptical.
• Under 10 percent of drug offenders have access to drug courts.
• A legal secretary says she was fired two hours after telling the firm she had cancer.