Newly elected Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates dropped all charges against Davis on Friday morning — ending a case that Bates describes as a tainted prosecution led by his predecessor, Marilyn Mosby, and fulfilling a promise he made to Davis’ wife and supporters over his two campaigns to be the city’s top prosecutor.
Newly elected Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates is seeking tougher sentences for illegal gun possession. "I would like to have a five-year maximum penalty for gun possession across the board," Bates said.
Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates hired two prosecutors to lead the office’s high-profile special victims and major investigations units, and brought on a third attorney to spearhead a reconfigured post-conviction team.
Tuerk House in West Baltimore is adding a pharmacy, an urgent care facility, and other new amenities to help patients overcome addiction.
"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.
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.
“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.
"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."
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.
