Posted on 06/30/2025 12:56:06 AM PDT by Morgana
The Maryland Circuit Court for Baltimore City held a second criminal trial for Patrick Brice, who was accused of physically assaulting pro-life sidewalk advocates Dick Schaefer and Mark Crosby on May 26th, 2023, outside a Planned Parenthood facility on North Howard Street in Baltimore.
Brice (picted right) whose attorney did not dispute his guilt, encountered the two elderly men peacefully standing and praying outside the abortion facility. Unprovoked, Brice violently attacked both men, leaving Schaefer unconscious and Crosby with multiple fractured facial bones and temporary blindness. On February 6th, the jury found Patrick Brice guilty on two counts of misdemeanor second-degree assault and endangerment. The prosecution wanted a solo charge of felony first-degree assault against Crosby; however, the jury could not reach a unanimous decision, thereby delaying Brice’s retrial to June 23rd.
In the second trial, the court found Brice not guilty of first-degree assault against Crosby. Judge Yvette Bryant maintained the double count of misdemeanor against Brice. He will await his sentencing in August. A second-degree assault charge carries up to 10 years of incarceration, but there is no guarantee that Brice will receive anywhere close to the maximum sentencing. Brice has again been released on his own recognizance.
This questionable decision on the part of Judge Bryant to keep the charge against Brice as a mere misdemeanor highlights the need for oversight of the judiciary in Maryland, as well as other pro-abortion states. Laura Bogley, Executive Director of Maryland Right to Life stated, “The State of Maryland continues to blatantly discriminate against pro-life speech. This Court has a duty to apply justice blindly and Judge Bryant has failed in her duty to the citizens and the Constitution.”
Blame also may be assigned to the Baltimore City prosecutor’s office, which refused to charge Brice with a hate crime. Bogley continued, “This was a violent hate crime and an attack on Catholics and religious freedom everywhere. It was a clear violation of the FACE Act, which is to protect pro-life advocates as well as abortion workers. Brice should have been charged with a federal crime. The victims will not see justice unless this case is removed from the biased bench in the Maryland courts.”
Maryland Right to Life recently led an advocacy campaign to ask Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown and United States Attorney General Pam Bondi to provide oversight of the Circuit Court’s actions. The organization previously called upon Governor Wes Moore and Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott to condemn this violence when the assaults were first perpetrated in 2023. Their prolonged silence in the face of this injustice may be perceived as condoning hate crimes against Catholics and chilling free speech and the free exercise of religion in Maryland.
While this is a disappointing decision, Crosby says that the judge’s ruling will not affect his actions going forward. He says, “It’s just a wonderful feeling when we’re in front of Planned Parenthood and a mother with a baby comes up to us and says, ‘Thank you for ministering to me and that I didn’t have to murder my baby.’”
Instead of quitting their prayer and conversations out of fear, Schaefer and Crosby encourage more people to come join them in front of Planned Parenthood. With the correct response, even a seeming failure can have a positive impact. Each time the government tries to silence the voices of pro-lifers by promoting abortion and violence, it is an opportunity to return even stronger than before. The pro-life movement has demonstrated strength and persistence in the face of adversity, and this time is no different.
Additionally, Crosby stresses that active involvement is necessary to grow the movement. “If Jesus asked what we were doing to save the babies, real action is necessary,” says Crosby. Real action also is necessary to protect free speech and religious freedom and to prevent violence against people like Schaefer and Crosby. Violence is never an acceptable solution to unplanned pregnancies or to differences in deeply held religious beliefs.
Ghetto-Fabulous, free of facts, and now running our country.
The civil rights division of the DOJ needs to go after the Maryland DA for the obviously discriminatory refusal to enforce hate crimes laws against the perp.
Ghetto-Fabulous, Check free of facts, Check and now running our country???? PLEEEEEEEEEEEZE read a blog here and there you might learn something.
Dang, her eyes are so far apart that they get charged extra money for calling each other on a LAN line!
Talk with your buying power. Boycott Maryland.
America’s herd of “judges” is sure made up of some creepy looking characters. Whose makin’ the pancakes these days.
So, if someone does to him what he did to the elderly gentlemen, will they get off with a misdemeanor too?
Damn them all to Hell...............
To be fair, it wasn’t like he attacked some blue haired trans something with a nose ring, blocking traffic and throwing Molotov cocktails.
Then he would have been facing life without parole . . .
The “journalist” makes much out of referring to the crimes as “misdemeanors”. In Maryland, unlike most jurisdictions, the differentiation between misdemeanors and felonies is not dependent upon the potential length of incarceration.
They appear to be mental lightweights, best dems have to offer.
Be fun if FEDERAL charges were launched against the attackers...give that side a taste of double-jeopardy, for once.
Does anyone know offhand what qualifications the founding fathers had for judges? I don’t know about this case, but I’ve noticed that a great many liberal judges, especially the female ones, are so young as to have not possibly gained enough wisdom to be qualified for their jobs.
I don’t know about fun, but it would be just.
Didn’t Earn It.
Violence on behalf of your own ideology is OK.
She is on the right as you view the photo.
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