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Wednesday, May 30 Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby says her office wins 92 percent of felony cases excluding murders. That’s a slight decline from her predecessor, but still a success in this era of police scandal, she says. |
| The murder of popular student Victorious Swift is among a growing number of Baltimore homicides being “closed by exception" after police determine the suspect is also dead. Police say the practice reflects a hard reality, that so-called "street justice" often outpaces their own investigations. |
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| Warren Brown and J. Wyndal Gordon called for the Baltimore County state's attorney's office to release footage from the body camera Officer Amy Caprio wore when she was killed. |
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| State officials are investigating the origins of a report recommending house arrest for 16-year-old Dawnta Harris three days before he allegedly ran over a Baltimore County Police Officer Amy Caprio in a stolen Jeep. |
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| Attorney Steve Levin wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed with the court late Thursday that the leader of the police department’s corrupt Gun Trace Task Force “climbed the ladder of success through hard work,” but “threw it all away by engaging in activity which he recognizes was wrong." |
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| Anne Arundel County detective Brian Houseman pleaded guilty to two charges of misconduct and office and resigned from the Anne Arundel Police Department after he was charged with soliciting prostitutes on the job. |
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| Maryland’s secretary of juvenile services says the justice system failed in handling the case of a troubled West Baltimore teen Dawnta Harris now charged with murder in the death of Baltimore County policewoman Amy Caprio. |
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| With flags at half-mast behind her, Baltimore schools CEO Sonja Santelises stood in front of district headquarters and read the names of the nine city students who have been lost to gun violence since last school year. |
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