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Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his defense team in a Manhattan court, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. Trump is set to appear in a New York City courtroom on charges related to falsifying business records in a hush money investigation, the first president ever to be charged with a crime. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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Trump's criminal indictment: Views on a historic legal reckoning

Tom Hall

NY Times correspondent Luke Broadwater and UBalt legal scholar Kim Wehle offer insights on the unprecedented criminal indictment of the former president, and its political and legal ramifications.

Adnan Syed emerges from the courthouse on Sept. 19, 2022, after Baltimore Judge Melissa Phinn threw out his murder conviction, in light of new evidence that someone else could have strangled Hae Min Lee.

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The Adnan Syed case: analysis with UBalt Law Prof. David Jaros

Tom Hall

Tuesday's appellate court reinstatement of Syed's 2000 murder conviction, four months after it was vacated by another judge, has raised new questions about the case, and how justice is being served. Legal scholar David Jaros shares his insight.

Former President Donald Trump gestures as he departs Trump Tower, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in New York, on his way to the New York attorney general's office for a deposition in a civil investigation. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

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Trump's legal reckoning: analysis with UB law professor Kim Wehle

Tom Hall

With six potential criminal and civil indictments now hanging over him, former president Donald Trump is facing greater legal jeopardy than ever before. Former Assistant US Attorney Kim Wehle joins us to explain the legal morass, and why these prosecutions matter in a nation of laws.

Heather Warnken is executive director of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform at UBalt Law; Ray Kelly is a community activist and executive director of the Community Policing Project. (photos courytesy UBalt Law/CPP)

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Curbing the city's gun violence: two community perspectives

Tom Hall

Heather Warnken of UBalt Law's Center for Criminal Justice Reform and Ray Kelly of the Citizen Policing Project think imposing longer sentences for gun violence offenders is the wrong approach to the city's endemic gun-crime problem.

Daniel L. Hatcher is Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore where he teaches a Civil Advocacy Clinic in which law students represent low-income clients. He is author of Injustice, Inc.: How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor (UC Press) and The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens (NYU Press). (photos credit UC Press)

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Daniel Hatcher's "Injustice, Inc." targets our profit-driven courts

Tom Hall

In his new book, the UBalt law professor argues that our criminal justice system is corruptly structured to earn revenue from the processing and incarceration of children and the poor.

Everett J. Waring became the first Black man admitted to the bar of the Supreme Bench bar in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 10, 1885. The University of Baltimore School of Law is presenting a symposium on February 16, from 6-9pm, in which a panel of jurists and legal scholars will spotlight Maryland's early Black lawyers and the challenges they faced in gaining admission to the bar, as well as obstacles still in existence for Black lawyers seeking bar admission and judgeships. (image courtesy Library of Congress)

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Blazing the Trail: Remembering Maryland's first Black lawyers

Tom Hall

Two lawyers taking part in an upcoming University of Baltimore School of Law symposium on Maryland's first Black jurists join us to remember the contributions of these little-known legal pioneers.

Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby arrives in court flanked by her attorney, A. Scott Bolden, left, and husband, City Council President Nick Mosby.

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Marilyn Mosby trial news: Analysis with UBalt Law Prof. David Jaros

Tom Hall

New developments at the former State's Attorney's federal trial on financial fraud and perjury charges have challenged her legal defense team. Prof. Jaros explains.

The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol concluded its nearly 18-month investigation on Monday with its last public hearing, and is releasing its final report on Thursday. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP)

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Jan. 6 Committee Report: Analysis from legal scholar Kimberly Wehle

Tom Hall

The constitutional scholar, former federal prosecutor and visiting law professor at American University weighs in on the findings of the House Committee's 18-month investigation of the January 6 Insurrection, and what lies ahead.

A squeegee worker walks with his spray bottle and squeegee in the middle of stopped traffic as he works a corner in Baltimore, in this 2019 photo. A decades-old debate over Baltimore's mostly youthful squeegee workers is reaching a crescendo as the city grapples with issues of crime, poverty and racial inequities, and now, with a fatal confrontation between an enraged, bat-wielding motorist and the14-year-old squeegee worker who shot him dead. The boy has been charged with first degree murder, and will be tried in adult court. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Adult trial for teen charged in Reynolds killing: a legal analysis

Tom Hall

University of Baltimore law professor Dave Jaros discusses a judge's decision Thursday to try as an adult the 15 year-old squeegee worker charged with the July 7th murder of Timothy Reynolds.

(L-R) Heather Warnken directs UBalt Law's Center for Criminal Justice Reform; Lydia Watts is the executive director of University of MD, Baltimore's "Rebuild, Overcome and Rise" (ROAR) Center. (UBaltLaw/UMB photos)

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Heather Warnken, Lydia Watts on helping Baltimore's crime victims

Tom Hall

The two social activist lawyers discuss their efforts - through Warnken's Center for Criminal Justice Reform (UBalt Law) and Watts's "Rebuild, Overcome and Rise" (ROAR) Center (UMB) - to better assist Baltimore communities and individuals victimized by violent crime.