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Gods in Little Black Robes 14 Jul 2013 | 02:13 am
The Maryland Court of Appeals sure made multiple headlines last week. After a ruling from our highest court last year, we are now learning that dozens of convicted felons from the 1970s are entitled ...
O'Malley's Toothless Task Force 30 May 2013 | 09:12 pm
Governor Martin O'Malley, attempting to ride out the scandal in Baltimore's detention center with his presidential chances on track, announced this week the creation of a new task force, a "powerful n...
O'Malley's Corrupt Jailhouse 30 Apr 2013 | 10:00 pm
In the midst of the scandal over a gang's control of the Baltimore City Detention Center, I have been waiting to hear what Governor Martin O'Malley is going to do about his man Gary Maynard. Maynard ...
The Unjust Arrest of a Raven 24 Apr 2013 | 06:44 pm
Like many of us I am a Ravens fan, and followed the hullabaloo over the arrest of newly signed linebacker Rolando McClain in Alabama with mild interest. I have heard him condemned and called names (l...
A Stupid Trial 26 Mar 2013 | 06:27 pm
What do you make of a story like the one published last week in the Sun, about a city police sergeant on trial for tape recording a judge during an argument over a search warrant? The police wanted t...
The Public Defender's Purge 23 Oct 2012 | 09:19 pm
My summer vacation from this blog went on so long I thought I might never return, but an item from the Daily Record caught my eye and sense of disgust. The Baltimore Sun, that increasingly irrelevant...
Tough, Transparent or Neither? 21 Jun 2012 | 03:10 am
David Simon of The Wire fame has an interesting piece on his blog. It's long (over 4500 words) so I will boil it down: Police and prosecutors are pulling statistical tricks on the public because The...
A Neighborhood's Frustration 14 May 2012 | 09:15 pm
When I first began this blog the thing I learned first was how illiberal liberal folks could be. I began on Marc Steiner's Center for Emerging Media website, and almost instantly Marc got flak from l...
The Phylicia Barnes Case: A Questionable Start for the Defense and Prosecution 1 May 2012 | 02:37 am
Kudos to The Baltimore Sun for reporting the conflict of interest that Mead, Flynn, & Gray, a criminal defense law firm, got itself into in the high-profile Phylicia Barnes murder case. According to ...
Judge or First Lady? 14 Mar 2012 | 02:02 am
We can count on the Baltimore Sun to publish a fawning piece on Katie O'Malley every few years. How she raises her children while being both judge and mayor's wife ...how she does it as the governor'...
