Good morning and happy #FreeKeithFriday! Today Judge Taylor is presiding.
Case 1: A young person who cannot afford home detention. The state recommends home detention. At this point (finally!!) the home detention fees will be covered. Judge Taylor so orders.
Case 2: This person deals with addiction and sat in jail while people outside tried to figure out appropriate treatment. All parties now agree to ROR to treatment, and Judge Taylor so orders.
Case 3: A loved one with strong family support. Their trial will not be for months due to the long backlog after pausing jury trials. ASA Banks recommends HWOB. Judge Taylor orders home detention.
Case 4: A father with very serious health concerns that are not being addressed in jail. ASA Crowley recommends HWOB. Judge Taylor orders home detention.
Case 5: Another person with very serious health concerns that (who would have guessed) is not getting medical care while in jail. ASA Chieppor recommends home detention and Judge Taylor so orders.
Case 6: A father with medical concerns whose child was born while he has been in jail. He has not been able to meet or bond with his baby. ASA Reed recommends HWOB. Judge Taylor orders HWOB. This is family separation.
Case 7: A father whose case has been postponed for 5 months despite his objections. ASA Crowley recommends HWOB. Judge Taylor remarks that COVID is not a concern and orders HWOB. This person will now be held away from his family, for MONTHS before he is convicted with anything.
Case 8: A young person with strong family support. ASA Dahshan recommends HWOB. Judge Taylor orders home detention.
Case 9: A loved one being held since July based on a questionable arrest. ASA Grzechowiak recommends HWOB and Judge Taylor so orders.
That's today's docket. We'll be back later this afternoon for the Friday Roundup. Don't call the cops, and #FreeKeithDavisJr
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Welcome to the Friday Roundup. This is our chance to share things we heard that did not fit into the daily docket twitter threads. We know from what we observe that the entire system is based on cruelty and dehumanization.
This thread is a little window into how badly the criminal punishment system treats Baltimoreans, and especially Black Baltimoreans.
A little change in bail docket schedules started this week. Bail reviews will only be 3 days a week instead of 5 days. Babies will still be heard on Thursdays.
A content note for Thursdays: these hearings are for children the state is prosecuting as adults. These threads document the abusive and neglectful conditions all our threads document, but people often understandably find Thursday threads even more disturbing.
Today in Baltimore City Circuit Court bail reviews: Judge Jackson is presiding. ASA Varda will represent the state for most of the docket.
Good morning. Today in Baltimore City Circuit Court bail reviews: Judge Jackson is presiding. ASA Hartford will represent the state for most of the docket.
CASE 1: a teenager whose attorney points out that holding everyone without bail is unconstitutional and wrong. He has been pre-approved with one of the home detention companies.
ASA Boucher recites the cops' tales as facts, including that they found marijuana and that the teen "exhibited characteristics of an armed person." See @notrivia's thread from yesterday about this bullshit.
Tuesday docket thread. While we breather a sigh of relief, grieve, rage against a broken system tonight, the work continues. The injustices continue in courtrooms across America. Our work continues.
Judge Jackson is presiding today.
ASA Turiello is handling the majority of the docket.
Case 1: A person who was arrested on old warrants from an incidents going back to 2019.
ASA Turiello recommends HWOB
Judge Taylor orders home detention
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For the notes of Monday 4/19/21
Judge Jackson presiding. It was noted the proceedings started late because Judge Jackson was locked out of the courtroom.
Case 1: Defense stated that trial dates for 2021 are already filled and this loved one has not even had an arraignment, so trial will not be until 2022.
Good morning! While waiting for bail reviews to start, here is our thread from yesterday’s docket of children being held in solitary confinement with no trials in sight.