a Black student at Bowie State University, visited friends at the University of Maryland College Park in 2017. A white student stabbed Collins to death at a bus stop.During the trial, prosecutors said the student singled out Collins, calling...
Judge Hill said Maryland law requires hate to be the sole motive in the crime for the charge to stand. Because of that, Prince George's County State's Attorney Aisha Braveboy said she will push Maryland's General Assembly to broaden the hate crime statute. Collins' mother and father said ...
Since 2022 with the passage of juvenile justice reform, juveniles under the age of 13 were not permitted to be charged with a crime unless it was an offense classified as a crime of violence under Maryland law. Crimes of violence include carjacking, robbery, assault in the first degree and ...
Under the new law, using facial recognition technology in Maryland would be limited to the investigations of certain crimes, including violent crime, human trafficking, child abuse, child pornography, hate crimes, certain weapons crimes and criminal acts that involve “circumstances presenting a substant...
Vice-Chair, Maryland 250 Commission, 2023-. Member, Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention, 2024-. Assistant State's Attorney, Baltimore County, 1991-2001 (law clerk, Investigation Division, 1988-91; prosecutor, District Court, 1991-94; prosecutor, Juvenile Court, 1994-95; prosecutor...
Law enforcement is rooted in slave patrols of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and police enforcement of Jim Crow laws in the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries. Can a system rooted in slavery be reformed? Probably not. Rather than policing the effects of crime, a public safety ...
But Kimberly, actually the law in Maryland does NOT state that. It states that the child can’t be unsupervised locked in a home or vehicle. CPS admitted as much, but still pointed to that law as the age guideline they use for children in public, even though that’s not the actual ...
I went to the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is known—or so I thought—for tracking hate groups. They even do a good job of defining hate crime as crimes where bias is the primary motive for committing the crime. So I was quite surprised to see that, according to...
Tina Harris: They didn't shut it down as a crime scene. Police seized some drug vials but left the house unguarded. Tina Harris says that's because they believed what Ryan had told them about where Sarah had gotten the drugs and how she'd taken them. ...
“The eyes of the world are on Fulton County,” Raffensperger saidin a pair of posts on X. “Local officials must ensure that every process from now until election day and after is transparent and in accordance with Georgia law, given the history of controversy in the county’s ele...