The contentious rhetoric between lawyers in Marilyn Mosby's criminal case is likely to cool off with defense attorney A. Scott Bolden off the case.

Justin M. Peterson, 28, of Westminster, was sentenced to 35 years in prison followed by 30 years of supervised release on Friday after pleading guilty in August to one count of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of distribution of child pornography.

U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby allowed all six of Marilyn Mosby’s criminal defense lawyers to withdraw from her perjury and mortgage fraud case, issuing her ruling Friday morning.

Eric Glenn Banks Jr., 35, submitted an Alford plea to second-degree murder and to disarming a law enforcement officer in October, conceding prosecutors had secured enough evidence for a conviction had the case gone to trial.

Alexander Vaughan Williams, 34, has been charged in the killing of Markus Nocho, 26, of Odenton, according to a police news release.

The Baltimore Police Department has made sweeping changes in policy and practices, but it’s essential the department “stop the bleeding” in terms of its recruitment and retention, a federal judge warned Thursday.

Protesters hit the streets Thursday afternoon demanding justice for 18-year-old Donnell Rochester, who was killed last year by Baltimore Police.

Prosecutors, as part of the wide-ranging investigation into Baltimore Police’s Gun Trace Task Force, accused former Baltimore Police Sgt. Ethan Glover of stealing $10,000 from a stash and later lying about the theft to the FBI.