On 1/27/26, Baltimore City Circuit Court was closed due to inclement weather. This did not stop the detainees inside from feeling the affects of the snow and ice storm despite their hearings being cancelled.
Noticing a typo here: This was 1/13/26, not 1/13/25!
That was 1/23/26’s docket. We will continue updating with past threads. Wear a mask, do not call the police, keep your neighbors safe.
Case 2: Case is called and immediately nolle prossed.
Case 1: Judge DiPietro claimed this case was called multiple times but it was not. This hearing is to modify the terms of home detention.
ASA Migdal is not opposed.
Pretrial does not make a recommendation.
Judge DiPietro grants the modification.
Good morning. This is the thread for Friday, January 23 2026’s bail review docket in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Judge DiPietro presided and started with the standard do not record statement.
That was the docket for today. We’ve got the same message as yesterday: Wear a mask, protect your neighbors, resist the state, free them all.
Case 2: Postponed because the person is not able to be located in jail. Because the jail cannot do their job and bring someone to their hearing, this person will sit in jail for even longer- when again, they are legally presumed innocent.
This means that according to the State, Pretrial and Judge DiPietro, compulsory schooling through 12th grade is only compulsory if you don’t have charges against you, despite being legally innocent.
Case 1: A young person with strong family support who is in an adult facility not receiving services that he should be.
ASA Waller requests HWOB.
Pretrial recommends HWOB.
Judge DiPietro orders HWOB.
Good afternoon. Today, 1/21/26, Judge Michael DiPietro presided over the morning bail review docket in Baltimore City Circuit Court. He began with the standard do not record statement. His video was not working.
That’s Friday’s docket. There was no docket today because yesterday was MLK day, but our observers will be on tomorrow for the postponed hearings. Wear a mask, protect your neighbors, resist the state, free them all.
Case 5: A gentleman who deals with addiction and has been accepted at a treatment facility that will set him up with rehab and a job.
ASA Wayne requests home detention.
Pretrial recommends ROR to pretrial.
Judge Ausby orders home detention to treatment.
This man and his wife lost their home because they couldn't afford it while he was in jail.
Now, it is great this father is going home. However, he still has to pay for home detention without being permitted to work.
Case 4: A father who has been in jail for 6 months before his trial. His wife has lost their home because she couldn’t pay for it without his second income.
ASA Johnson requests HWOB.
Pretrial recommends home detention.
Judge Ausby orders home detention.
Case 3: Postponed because the person is in quarantine in jail and his lawyer is unable to reach him.
Case 2: A person who is sitting in jail because the state said they were too busy to look at evidence that may prove this person did not do it.
ASA Tasheruas requests HWOB.
Pretrial recommends HWOB.
Judge Ausby orders home detention.
Case 1: A request to modify home detention conditions so that this parent can take her child to school and support her family.
ASA Pope does not object to the modification.
Pretrial does not object.
Judge Ausby grants the modification.
Good afternoon. On Friday, 1/16/26, Judge Ausby presided over the morning bail review docket in Baltimore City Circuit Court. She began the docket with the no recording statement.
That’s yesterday’s docket. We keep us safe. Do not call the police. Wear a mask. Protect your neighbors from ICE. You know the rest.
Case 3: A father being held after a traffic stop, however SOPC is very questionable.
ASA Pillion recites the SOPC, says rude things about the person being held, and requests HWOB.
Pretrial recommends HWOB.
Judge Ausby orders HWOB.
Back to Case 1: A person who does not speak English and has gotten locked up multiple times partly because they were not able to read any documents of where they were supposed to be at different times.
The State submits to the court.
Pretrial recommends ROR.
Judge Ausby orders ROR to pretrial.
Case 2: A father where there is a motion for the charges to be dropped.
ASA Johnson requests HWOB.
Pretrial recommends HWOB.
Judge Ausby orders ROR.
Case 1: No prosecutor is present when called. Judge Ausby skips to the next case while waiting for an ASA to show up to work.
On Tuesday, 1/13/25, Judge Kendra Ausby presided over the morning bail review docket in Baltimore City Circuit Court.
That’s Friday’s docket. We’ll be back this week with a new judge. Do not call the police. It was already awful, and it continues to get worse *gestures*. Protect your neighbors. Love on each other, as always, wear a mask. Don’t forget about our incarcerated loved ones and community members.
Case 4: A father whose charges have been reduced because no evidence was recovered. Said charges were over an Instagram post. ID is very questionable.
An unknown prosecutor stands in and reads this person’s record then requests HWOB.
Pretrial recommends HWOB.
Judge Middleton orders HWOB.
Case 3: A father trying to support himself and his family who is being held after being threatened.
ASA Bennett requests HWOB.
Pretrial recommends home detention.
Judge Middleton orders HWOB.
Case 2: A man who is the one who called the police. He is being held because he had a different thing in his pocket than the thing used in the crime he is accused of.
ASA Vick requests HWOB.
Pretrial recommends home detention.
Judge Middleton orders home detention.
Case 1: Postponed
