The family and estate of an inmate who was slain on a prison bus should receive about 1 percent of the $18.5 million a jury awarded last fall, the attorney general’s office argued Monday in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Because ...

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The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is asking a Baltimore judge to cancel or reduce an $18.5 million damages award stemming from the murder of an inmate aboard a state prison bus. The documents were filed Tuesday in Baltimore City Circuit ...

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The family of an inmate who was killed aboard a prison bus was awarded $18.5 million and a Baltimore police detective is being sued by the family of a man he shot in 2009. Those stories and more in this ...

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Limit threatens ongoing protest Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday that the city intends to enforce Occupy Baltimore’s permit application, which set a limit beginning that day of two persons staying overnight at McKeldin Square, the site of the protest since ...

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Closing arguments are under way in Baltimore in a civil case alleging negligence by the state in the death of a prison inmate murdered by another inmate on a prison bus. Plaintiffs’ attorney Samuel Shapiro asked the jury Monday to ...

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A civil court jury in Baltimore is set to hear closing arguments in a wrongful death case stemming from an inmate-on-inmate murder aboard a state prison bus in 2005. The parents and estate of Phillip Parker Jr. are seeking $21 ...

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A judge ruled Friday that plaintiffs in a wrongful death case cannot claim malice by five state correctional officers who failed to prevent a man from killing a fellow inmate aboard a prison bus in 2005. The ruling by Baltimore ...

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A judge ruled Wednesday that there is enough evidence for a trial on whether the state was negligent when an inmate killed another inmate aboard a prison bus in 2005. The parents of Phillip E. Parker Jr. claim in a ...

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A judge in Baltimore has refused to dismiss a wrongful death claim filed against the state by the parents of a prison inmate who was murdered aboard a prison bus. Baltimore city circuit judge Sylvester Cox said Wednesday that there ...

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