Thompson said his life changed due to outreach from Youth Advocate Programs, which partners with the city to provide intensive outreach to those at risk of violent crime.
We will discuss guns and violent crime, drugs and quality of life crimes, legislative priorities, as well as law enforcement and community relations.
The bill HB0824, which was introduced back in February, is designed to alter the disqualifiers for possession of a regulated firearm.
The Deputy State's Attorney organizing the citation docket, Gregg Solomon-Lucas, said the docket would address low-level offenses such as trespassing, loitering, and open-container violations. She said the office wants to address those crimes in district court and offer wrap-around services.
State law says crime victims or people representing them should be treated with “dignity, respect, and sensitivity during all phases of the criminal justice process.” The Appellate Court of Maryland said Tuesday that didn’t happen last September, when Lee’s brother, Young Lee, got short notice of a hearing that terminated Syed’s murder conviction. He was able to attend that proceeding not in person, but by video call.
Dundore slammed the teen face down on the concrete, wrapped his arm around his neck and told him, "I swear to God, I'll choke you out if you don't stop."
Neighborhood residents who attended the meeting pressed Ivan Bates for answers and questioned him about his crime plan.
Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates appeared before a senate committee on March 21st pushing his bill to raise the maximum penalty for illegal gun possession from 3 years to 5 years for those 21 and older. With just 3 weeks left in the legislative session, the fate of the bill still remains unclear.
"I don't like to call it tough on crime, I like to call it smart on crime. The tool I've been given as the state's attorney, as prosecutors, when folks do very bad actions in our community is jail," the state's attorney said. "But we also recognize not everybody needs to go to jail. Dealing with low-level offenses, we're not trying to incarcerate our way with them but hold people accountable. We're looking at citations. We're looking at how do we get those wrap-around services for individuals."
