Justin Fenton

Medical malpractice attorney Stephen L. Snyder's federal attempted extortion case is headed to closing arguments.

Stephen L. Snyder, the flamboyant plaintiff's attorney who won hundreds of millions of dollars over a five-decade career, was convicted of attempted extortion and other violations by a federal jury Friday.

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Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby called on President Joe Biden to pardon his ex-wife Marilyn Mosby, saying she was selectively prosecuted.

After representing himself at his extortion trial and getting convicted — and spending a night in jail for contempt — attorney Stephen L.

Nick Mangione Sr. had a ready retort when people questioned how he had purchased a high-profile local country club in the 1970s: “They asked me what family I belonged to. I told them, ‘I belong to the Mangione family. The Mangione family of Baltimore County,'” he told The Baltimore Sun in 1995.

A federal judge denied Stephen L. Snyder's request to be represented by an attorney ahead of his federal extortion sentencing, saying it “rings hollow” and was designed to disrupt and delay the case.

Department of Defense deputy chief Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr., of Anne Arundel County, sentenced for dogfighting.

Gordon Staron, 35, of Abingdon in Harford County, was sentenced on Thursday in Baltimore Circuit Court for the murders of Keith Bell and Javarick Gantt.