Bail Hearing

A 24-year-old Baltimore County medical student used his own gun in the killing of a 62-year-old medical supply salesman in an Owings Mills movie theater last week, county police said yesterday. Mujtaba Rabbani Jabbar of the first block of Evan Way in the Anton North area of the county purchased a .357-caliber handgun about a year ago, police officials said. The gun was used in the shooting of Paul Schrum of the 900 block of Bittersweet Road in Pikesville, officials said. Police officials would not say where the gun was purchased.

A former Villa Julie College student accused of murdering her newborn daughter told a judge yesterday that she was not responsible for the child's death. "I've never done nothing in my life," Danielle Eboni Riley, 21, said during a bail review hearing at District Court in Towson. "I didn't do what they said." Riley, of Forestville in Prince George's County, is accused of killing her baby shortly after giving birth in October in a dormitory at the college's satellite campus in Owings Mills, according to charging documents filed Wednesday.

Johns Hopkins University senior Linda Trinh fought for her life during a brutal attack that ended in her strangulation, and the man accused of killing her forced his way into the student's apartment the night before she was found dead, a prosecutor said during a bail hearing yesterday in city District Court. "The victim suffered," Baltimore Assistant State's Attorney Barbara E. Richmond said of Trinh, whose body was discovered partially submerged in a bathtub Jan. 23. Judge Catherine Curran O'Malley ordered murder suspect Donta Maurice Allen held without bond.

The couple charged in the New Year's Day killing of their infant son are scheduled to make separate appearances in court today for hearings to determine whether they will have the opportunity to post bail. Laurence Watson, 25, and Tanea Bullock, 20, have denied causing the injuries that killed their son, but both parents have said they were the only two people with access to the month-old boy, according to court documents filed by police. Watson and Bullock live in the 4800 block of Liberty Heights Ave., where they apparently have an apartment inside a small shingled building that also houses a barbershop.

Attorneys representing three teen-agers charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in a Mount Hebron High School bathroom are hopeful that they will be released today from the Howard County Detention Center, possibly with little or no bond. At a hearing Friday, District Judge Sue-Ellen Hantman denied bail for the three teen-agers, and they have been held at the Howard County Detention Center. This week, the county's Office of Public Defender requested another bail review for the teens, who may be present at today's bail hearing.

A Columbia man accused of killing his 2-year-old stepson said he did not place his hands on the child "at any time," according to Howard County police charging documents. Marcus Dannon Owens, 32, of the 5200 block of Brook Way in Wilde Lake has been charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and other crimes in the death of Kevonte Davis on Wednesday. Owens' bail review hearing was postponed yesterday because he did not have a lawyer. He has been held in the Howard County Detention Center since Friday.

Ciara Jobes was just 2 years old when social workers began to worry about her welfare. They were concerned about parental neglect even before her infant sister died of a cocaine overdose. Social workers and court officials kept up supervision on and off for more than a decade, until a judge granted custody of Ciara to a close family friend nearly three years ago. The judge, lawyers and family members felt the decision was the best chance at giving Ciara a normal life after documented neglect at the hands of her parents.

A maintenance help-desk employee at the Naval Academy has been charged with possessing child pornography and posing as a 12-year-old on the Internet to solicit photographs of nude children, state prosecutors said yesterday. David N. Sprachner, 44, of Glen Burnie apologized at a bail hearing in Annapolis yesterday for what he said was a "stupid, sick mistake." But his request to be set free until trial was rejected by District Judge Vincent A. Mulieri after prosecutors warned that Sprachner shares a small apartment with a couple and their four children.

A city man accused of torching a neighbor's home and killing six family members could have been jailed months ago because he never reported to his probation agent, state officials said. They acknowledged yesterday that they failed to properly supervise Darrell L. Brooks, who was on probation at the time he is accused of setting a fire that killed Angela Dawson and her five children in their East Baltimore home early Wednesday morning. "To date we have not found any documented contact [with a probation agent]

Amid reports that inmates and employees are becoming ill from the intense heat inside the Women's Detention Center, Baltimore's public defender's office began filing motions this week asking judges to release some of its female clients. During bail hearings, public defenders have argued that their clients are being subjected to "cruel and unusual punishment" in a facility without air conditioning. District Judge Charlotte M. Cooksey has scheduled a hearing today to discuss the issue. "It's so hot it takes your breath away.