Jobes case highlights guardian loopholes
A legal loophole that allowed an unfit mother to gain custody of Ciara Jobes - the 15-year-old girl tortured to death in one of the city's worst cases of child...
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Girl’s autopsy reveals a history of abuse
A 15-year-old girl whose emaciated body was discovered in December had as many as 700 wounds and bruises by the time authorities found her, according to an autopsy report obtained...
Blackwell case viable but difficult, experts say
When the strange tale of a Baltimore priest and the man he is accused of raping goes to court this year, it will be boiled down to its essence -...
Judge allows Blackwell to stay out of jail
The Rev. Maurice J. Blackwell was spared yesterday the indignity of going to jail before his sexual assault trial, partly because of injuries suffered last year when he was shot...
Priest charged in sex abuse of Stokes as teen
The Rev. Maurice J. Blackwell was indicted yesterday on child sexual abuse charges, nearly a year after the Baltimore clergyman was thrust into the national spotlight for being shot by...
Stokes testifies before grand jury weighing indictment of Blackwell
Dontee D. Stokes, the Baltimore man who shot a priest he says molested him as a teen-ager, testified to a grand jury yesterday in an effort to help indict the...
Stokes lawyer asks to help prosecute Blackwell case
Warren A. Brown, the loquacious litigator and City Council hopeful, grabbed air time on 60 Minutes and space in major American newspapers last year in his successful defense of Dontee...
Snow further delays criminal court system
Yesterday's criminal court docket in Baltimore was an average one: A 17-year-old was to stand trial in the killing of an 18-year-old. A man was to face a jury on...
Blackwell's refusal to testify in shooting costs him $15,000
When the Rev. Maurice J. Blackwell recently hobbled into Dontee Stokes' attempted-murder trial in a Baltimore courtroom and refused to testify against the man who shot him, it cost the...
Deal gets Stokes home detention on gun charges in priest shooting
Lawyers brokered a deal yesterday that ensures Dontee D. Stokes, the West Baltimore man who admits to shooting a Roman Catholic priest during an "out-of-body" experience, will not spend a...