Prosecutors are not seeking jail time for a former member of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch group convicted in the beating of a black teenager. Twenty-four-year-old Eliyahu Werdesheim faces sentencing Wednesday for second-degree assault and false imprisonment. His 22-year-old brother, ...

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The fates of two brothers charged with beating a black teenager while patrolling for a Jewish neighborhood watch are in the hands of a judge in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The two sides presented their closing arguments to Judge Pamela ...

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WBAL-TV 11 News reported Tuesday that Baltimore Sun reporter Tricia Bishop passed out during the trial of the Werdesheim brothers this morning and that one of the defendants went to her aid. Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim, Orthodox Jewish and white, ...

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A trial is set to begin for two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling for a Jewish neighborhood watch in Baltimore.

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Eliayahu and Avi Werdesheim, who were charged with beating a 15-year-old black male while patrolling a Baltimore neighborhood, asked for a change of venue Monday, citing publicity and parallels raised by the case against neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in ...

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Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting. The brothers, who are white and Jewish, have claimed ...

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The trial of two brothers accused of assaulting a black teen while they were working for a Jewish neighborhood patrol group has been postponed for the fifth time. Avi Werdesheim, 21, and Eliyahu Werdesheim, 24, were scheduled to stand trial ...

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More than a dozen protesters gathered outside Baltimore City Circuit Court on Monday morning to seek the disbanding of Shomrim, a Jewish neighborhood watch group, after one of its members was charged with assaulting a black teenager in November.

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