A Baltimore police detective faces a possible prison sentence after jurors convicted him of conspiring to deprive civil rights, falsifying records and lying to a grand jury.

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A former Baltimore police sergeant admitted to on-the-job misconduct and crime stretching back decades Tuesday as he testified in federal court against an ex-colleague on trial for conspiracy and falsifying records. This week’s trial against the defendant, Detective Robert Hankard, ...

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A victim of the Baltimore Police Department's corrupt Gun Trace Task Force unit has filed a multimillion-dollar federal civil rights lawsuit.

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The University of Baltimore Center for Criminal Justice Reform's first event will examine a recently released investigation into the disgraced Gun Trace Task Force unit of the Baltimore Police Department.

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Baltimore’s spending board approved $525,000 for a man who served four years behind bars after two members of a rogue police unit arrested him.

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BALTIMORE — A rapper from Baltimore is suing a former detective who was part of the city’s infamous Gun Trace Task Force for alleged harassment and for what he says was wrongful arrest. The Baltimore Sun reported Wednesday that the rapper is ...

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Maryland prosecutors need not tell defendants about the past dishonesty of the state’s witnesses before a guilty plea is entered, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Friday in upholding the drug possession conviction of a man whose main accuser had a ...

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A defense attorney and a lawyer for the state battled last week before Maryland’s top court over whether the Constitution requires prosecutors to tell defendants about the past dishonesty of the state’s witness before a guilty plea is entered. Assistant ...

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Maryland’s top court ruled unanimously Friday that Baltimore must pay the $64,000 settlement officers on its corrupt and disbanded Gun Trace Task Force reached with two men against whom they fabricated evidence in an effort to secure firearm convictions. In ...

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A federal judge dismissed portions of a man’s lawsuit against former Gun Trace Task Force members Tuesday but preserved a claim that the city is liable for allowing the Baltimore Police Department to develop a culture of violating citizens’ rights. ...

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