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State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling announced today that Delonte Rivens, 38, of District Heights, Maryland, was sentenced to 35 years in the Division of Corrections, with 15 years of active incarceration, for a domestic violence assault.

The Commissioners of St. Mary's County are pleased to announce the appointment of Buffy Giddens, Esq. as the County Attorney for St. Mary’s County Government.

The sentence is the latest in a long list of convictions Tramble has racked up since his criminal start in 1998 as a juvenile who possessed a stolen car.

In exchange for Ryan Masons guilty plea and his testimony against co-defendant Erion Davis-Murdock, 25, the state agreed to seek no more than 35 years in prison for him.

In courtrooms around the state early this week, judges conducted the first hearings under a new system that determines whether a defendant will be jailed while awaiting trial based on dangerousness and risk of fleeing prosecution, rather than their ability to post bail. The abolition of cash bail was included in the SAFE-T Act criminal

Two former Chicago police officers were acquitted Thursday of felony charges after opening fire and injuring an unarmed man in 2022.

A law passed in 2021 empowered prosecutors to revisit excessive sentences, but so far, only two people have been released. Said one: ‘Two years into it, it’s helped two people?’

Johnnie Holbrook, 27, had been in jail just over two years on weapons offenses and for fleeing from a state trooper.

As prosecutors closed their case against two Chicago police officers Wednesday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, they alleged that the officers shot an unarmed man, instigated a gunfight with the man’s companion and then lied about it on official department forms. The officers, Christopher Liakopoulos, 44, and Ruben Reynoso, 43, are charged with two counts of aggravated battery with a ...

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