Blackwell asks new trial on abuse charges
Claiming "a circus-like atmosphere where it was impossible for the defendant to receive a fair trial," the attorney for a defrocked Baltimore priest convicted last week of molesting a former...
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Blackwell is convicted of molesting teen Stokes
Maurice Blackwell, the former priest of St. Edward Roman Catholic Church in West Baltimore, was convicted yesterday of molesting a parish choirboy, who years later shot him. The defrocked priest,...
Blackwell jury struggles to reach a verdict
After more than five hours of deliberation, jurors in the sexual child abuse case of a defrocked Baltimore priest sent the judge a note yesterday saying they could not agree...
Jury chosen for sex-abuse trial of defrocked priest Blackwell
With 16 men and women selected yesterday as jurors and alternates, opening statements in the trial of a defrocked Baltimore priest accused of molesting a young parishioner who later shot...
Defrocked priest proclaims his innocence
Delivering his message with the same impassioned oratory he once used from the pulpit, Maurice Blackwell, a former priest, defended himself publicly yesterday for the first time. On the eve...
A feeling of peace as trial approaches
Here in a barber chair in a Baltimore shop near Charles Village called Conscious Heads, with one of his closest friends hovering above him with a pair of clippers, Dontee...
Witness bill gets clergy support
The legislative effort to combat witness intimidation in Maryland is drawing support from a potentially powerful group: African-American ministers in some of Baltimore's toughest neighborhoods. "Good people are scared. The...
Witness-intimidation victims urge the passage of legislation
The woman in the light-green blazer, shaking and holding back tears, told a panel of senators yesterday that witness intimidation is "like a nightmare." "We've suffered," she said on behalf...
Witness’ detention shows problem, lawyer says
For more than five months, Kenyatta Costes was locked up at the Baltimore City Jail. Her crime: She's a reluctant witness in a murder case. Yesterday, a Baltimore Circuit Court...
Report details efforts by police to get laptop
The team of detectives told the burglary suspect that they just wanted "one piece of important info, that's all." He nodded and said he knew what they wanted and, to...