Portions of a lawsuit filed by a Baltimore police trainee who was shot in the head during a training exercise in 2013 were revived by a federal appellate court Thursday after the judges found evidence in the record to support ...

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A police trainee who lost an eye after being shot during a training exercise is challenging a federal judge’s ruling that he cannot receive more than $200,000 in damages under a state torts claim. Attorneys for Raymond Gray refused the ...

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A Baltimore city jury Tuesday night awarded $70,000 to a community activist who alleged he was assaulted in his driveway by police. Abdul Salaam complained to the department after Officers Nicholas David Chapman and Jorge Omar Bernardez-Ruiz pulled him from ...

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As the Baltimore City Detention Center men’s facility is emptied, a primary concern for attorneys with clients housed there is how to track them down for meetings and trial preparation. With 750 inmates in the process of being transferred to ...

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Baltimore police are facing separate multimillion-dollar lawsuits by the family of a man who died after struggling with officers and by a community activist who alleges he was assaulted in his driveway by two of the same officers a few weeks earlier.

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Defense attorneys, former prosecutors and other legal experts believe that Michael Maurice Johnson, convicted last week of murdering 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes, has strong grounds for an appeal.

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The Baltimore Board of Estimates has voted down a $150,000 settlement to end a suit by a teenager who was picked up by three police officers and dropped in a wooded state park, sans shoes, far from his home.

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Lillian Parker, a 50-year-old lunch lady in the Baltimore school system, was wrongfully arrested and thrown in jail for two days in 2007 on drug and weapons charges that were later dropped. She sued, seeking $2 million from the officers ...

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A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge noticed someone was missing from his courtroom Wednesday when attorneys for a teenager picked up and allegedly abandoned by police officers argued that the city had reneged on its agreement to pay the boy’s ...

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The trial of Paul E. Schurick, accused of trying to sabotage Gov. Martin O’Malley’s re-election last fall with robocalls, will be heard by a Baltimore judge whose wife received one of the controversial phone messages. “I have absolutely no concerns ...

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