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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...

A man who physically assaulted two pro-life sidewalk counselors in 2023 was convicted on several charges but will be retried on a first-degree felony assault charge after a jury failed to reach a verdict. Patrick Brice, 28, was convicted on two counts of second-degree assault and two counts of reckless endangerment for his attack on Mark Crosby, 84 at the time, and Richard Schaefer, 73 at the time, outside Planned Parenthood in Baltimore, Maryland. According to The Daily Wire, Brice was acquitted of one count of first-degree assault for the attack on Schaefer but avoided a first-degree assault charge due...

CV NEWS FEED // Baltimore prosecutors will retry Patrick Brice on a felony first-degree assault charge for violently attacking an elderly pro-life advocate outside a Planned Parenthood facility in 2023. A jury convicted Brice Feb. 6 of two counts each of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment for the attack on then 84-year-old Dick Schafer and 73-year-old Mark Crosby, CatholicVote reported. The jury acquitted him of the first-degree charge in Schafer’s case and failed to reach a verdict on the charge related to Crosby. Brice’s sentencing on the unresolved felony charge involving Crosby — initially scheduled for March 20 — was...