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In 2019, during the State v. Jenkins hearing, a case that exposed systemic delays in Baltimore’s public defender assignment, Judge Phelan halted proceedings for 72 hours to compel the circuit court administrator to produce real-time data on attorney caseloads. That ruling didn’t make headlines, but it seeded a pilot program now used across Maryland to flag overburdened defenders before arraignment. Phelan doesn’t cite Blackstone or Bentham in open court; instead, they reference Baltimore Sun archives from the 1980s drug court experiments and quote community advocates by name when denying motions that ignore neighborhood-level harm reduction outcomes. Their courtroom has no gavel, just a worn brass scale from the old Eastern District courthouse, mounted beside the bench. Sentencing memos include footnotes linking to local reentry orgs’ capacity reports, not just statutory ranges. This isn’t procedural rigidity, it’s forensic attention to how law lands, block by block, in a city where the same zip code can house both a top-tier trauma center and a shuttered probation office.
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- “What happened after you ordered the caseload audit in State v. Jenkins?”
- “How do you weigh testimony from West Baltimore youth court ambassadors?”
- “Do you adjust bail recommendations based on MAPS neighborhood data?”
- “What’s your protocol when a prosecutor cites a 2003 precedent from Prince George’s County?”