Ivan Bates hosts town hall to listen to community about fighting crime
"You have high school students on lunch break and someone with a gun shoots and kills them and take that life. We have to do something because enough is enough," Bates said.
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We have a chance. We have a new state’s attorney (”Ivan Bates sworn in as Baltimore state’s attorney, immediately reinstates prosecution of low-level offenses,” Jan. 3). The prior state’s attorney seemed to focus on traveling, on determining which crimes not to prosecute and on exonerating innocent prisoners. No matter how noble the latter effort, perhaps the new state’s attorney can focus on prosecuting and convicting criminals which, so far as I know, is the main element in his job description. That can only help.
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“Illegal Guns are killing too many people in our city. They're being used to rob carjack and attack our fellow residents. And enough is enough,” Bates said.
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"This is their year, 2023 is their year," Bates said. "I'm letting them know that I'm proud of them, that the community is proud of them and that we have their back, and we're going to support them."
Baltimore judge sentences teen convicted of rape and murder of 83-year-old neighbor to life in prison
Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer called the circumstances of Dorothy Mae Neal’s killing “heartbreaking” and said the nature of the crime “demands punishment,” despite Tyrone Harvin’s age at the time of the crime. He was 14 years old.
Ivan Bates sworn in as city State’s Attorney
Longtime defense attorney Ivan Bates was sworn in Tuesday as Baltimore’s top prosecutor.
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"I think it's very important. As a state's attorney, I need to make sure the citizens know who I am, that I'm out there and I'm listening to them and their concerns," Bates said.
Dozens Released From Baltimore Jails, Prisons
U.S. News & World Report -- DOZENS of inmates have been released from jails and prisons in Baltimore in the past two weeks during new or accelerated bail hearings, the state judicial system said. The actions come as judiciary leaders nationwide decide whether lowering jail populations would blunt the spread of the coronavirus.