Death of Noah Jamahl Jones

June 15, 2005

Friend of dead Arundel teen Jones gets sole conviction in fatal brawl

A friend of Noah Jamahl Jones, an Anne Arundel teen who died in a brawl last year, pleaded guilty to a gun charge yesterday - putting to rest the only remaining case stemming from the racially tinged incident.

May 30, 2005

U.S. case in teen's death is unlikely

Those demanding justice for Noah Jamahl Jones, the black Pasadena teenager who died in a brawl last summer, said they are pinning their hopes on a federal civil rights probe now that local prosecutions have ended.

May 28, 2005

Gregory Kane: Two cases show how vast our racial divide remains

HOW DID Marylanders end up with two poignant moments in race relations in just one week?

May 27, 2005

Acquitted teen says he 'did nothing wrong' in deadly Arundel brawl

Breaking months of silence, the teen acquitted two weeks ago of manslaughter in the death of a Pasadena youth struck back yesterday at those who contend the fatal brawl was racially driven and against his one-time friend who testified against him.

May 25, 2005

Charges against four defendants dropped in Pasadena teen's death

Saying the cases had "no reasonable hope of success," Anne Arundel County's chief prosecutor dropped manslaughter and other charges yesterday against four young white men accused in the death of a black Pasadena teenager in a brawl last summer.

May 25, 2005

A crowd multiplies difficulties of trial

Legal experts say the case of Noah Jamahl Jones is an almost textbook example of how challenging prosecutions that involve crowds and chaos can be.

May 25, 2005

Timeline for Noah Jamahl Jones case

July 24, 2004: Noah Jamahl Jones, a 17-year-old rising senior at Northeast High School, suffers fatal brain injuries in a melee outside a house party in Pasadena. He dies within hours.

May 24, 2005

Arundel NAACP demands investigation of Jones jury

The Anne Arundel County chapter of the NAACP is demanding an investigation into reports that jurors improperly discussed the case of a white Pasadena teenager who was later acquitted of charges in the death of a black teenager in a melee.

May 23, 2005

State's attorney on the hot seat

Soft-spoken and low-key, Anne Arundel County State's Attorney Frank R. Weathersbee would rather be at a meeting on victim services than at a political forum. He has stayed out of the limelight so much so that the lawyer for the defendant in a pending local murder case that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court has never met him.

May 22, 2005

Speak Out!

Did race play role in teen's death?

Last week's question: The acquittal last week of a white Pasadena teenager in the death of Noah Jamahl Jones, a black student at Northeast High School, has rekindled racial issues that have surrounded his death since six white men were charged with manslaughter last year. Local black community leaders asked for calm moments after Jacob Tyler Fortney, 19, was acquitted, and police are keeping a watchful eye for potential violence. But some observers say that the racial aspects of the case have been overblown, and that other factors led to the deadly confrontation in July on a Pasadena street. What factor did race play in the death of Jones, and how did race affect the outcome of the investigation?

May 14, 2005

Jurors found doctors more believable than witness

In the end, the jurors found the doctors more believable than the eyewitness.

May 14, 2005

Gregory Kane: In a street fight, you get street justice

IT IS NOT a crime to hate black people.

May 13, 2005

Teen acquitted in Jones' death

A Pasadena teen-ager was acquitted yesterday in the death of Noah Jamahl Jones, bringing to an end a racially charged trial and prompting nervous leaders in Anne Arundel County's black community to call for calm.

May 12, 2005

Key witness in teen's death contradicted

The state's key witness in the trial in the death of a Pasadena teenager told a friend that he did not see an attack on the youth - which contradicted his courtroom testimony this week - the friend told a jury yesterday.

May 11, 2005

Jury hears account of fatal brawl

The teenager on trial in the death of a Pasadena high school student bragged after the fatal brawl that he crushed Noah Jamahl Jones' head, a key prosecution witness told a jury yesterday.

May 10, 2005

Medical examiner testifies that brain injuries killed Arundel teenager

An assistant medical examiner testified yesterday that the Pasadena teenager who died in a melee last summer was killed by the brain injuries he suffered as he fell backward to the ground and that his injuries could have been aggravated by other blows that were delivered.

May 7, 2005

Trial begins in death of teen

Prosecution witnesses described yesterday a chaotic scene outside a Pasadena home where a teenager died in a fight last summer, telling jurors that the melee erupted quickly and was over in a flash, with police and paramedics wading through as many as 30 youths in the street when they arrived.

May 6, 2005

First trial begins in Pasadena teen's death

Prosecutors told an all-white jury yesterday that a white teenager kicked the head of a black youth already unconscious from a serious brain injury in a brawl in Pasadena, contributing to the death of Noah Jamahl Jones.

May 5, 2005

Defense request on Arundel jury alarms NAACP official

The president of the NAACP's Anne Arundel County chapter expressed alarm yesterday at a defense lawyer's request in a high-profile trial, saying it could lead to eliminating blacks from a jury that will decide whether a white teenager is to blame for an African-American youth's death in a brawl last summer.

May 4, 2005

Teen's death: a matter of race or self-defense?

On a warm July night, an African-American teenager with a ready smile and plans for the future lay dying on the side of a Pasadena road after a beating, allegedly by six young white men.