Bollinger

IN JANUARY, Baltimore County Circuit Judge Thomas J. Bollinger expunged the conviction of Charles H. Weiner, who had beaten his estranged wife. A questionable ruling, it would have gone unnoticed if this judge had not previously roiled the waters by making callous comments about a rape victim.Women's groups accused him of bias in the expungement case. This past week, the state's judicial disciplinary panel dismissed their complaint and issued the judge a private warning. It was an appropriate decision.

Manchester Town Councilman Gerald H. Bollinger says he'd like to give someone else a turn at the job, but he has not yet made up his mind whether he will run in the May 18 election."

The teen-age son of a Baltimore County judge has been charged with stalking and harassing his former girlfriend in three incidents after she began dating another young man.Scott Edward Bollinger -- whose father is Circuit Judge Thomas J. Bollinger -- is charged with stalking, harassment, trespassing and telephone misuse stemming from alleged incidents in April, May and this month, according to District Court records.The alleged incidents continued even as he was awaiting trial and was under court order not to contact the girl, according to documents.

A day after Baltimore County Circuit Judge Thomas J. Bollinger Sr. restored the 1995 conviction of a Baltimore pawnbroker for beating his estranged wife, the man's lawyer moved to have his record wiped clean again by filing new documents in Circuit Court.The move came after Bollinger on Monday reversed his controversial Jan. 31 decision to change Charles H. Weiner's battery conviction to probation before judgment. Bollinger reinstated the conviction on grounds that Weiner never signed a "written consent" agreeing to the probation terms.

A JUDGE expunges a businessman's criminal conviction for brutally beating his estranged wife, after the man said he needed a clean record to join a country club.Under fire from women's rights activists and legislators calling for his head, the judge reverses himself, reinstating the conviction on a legal technicality - and disqualifying himself from hearing any more cases on rape, sexual offense or domestic violence.That bizarre chain of events in the last two weeks involving Baltimore County Circuit Judge Thomas J. Bollinger has left legal experts stumped.

After days of intense protest from women's groups and legislators, Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Thomas J. Bollinger Sr. reinstated the conviction of a wife-beater yesterday and disqualified himself from cases involving sexual offenses or domestic violence.The highly unusual move by Bollinger -- reprimanded in 1994 for insensitive comments in a rape case -- follows withering protests over his Jan. 31 decision to change his battery conviction of Baltimore pawnbroker Charles H. Weiner to probation before judgment.

Sophomore Emily Bollinger missed Westminster's first game against Carroll County rival Liberty with a sprained foot. In last night's rematch, the 6-foot-1 forward returned to give the Owls a huge leg up. Bollinger produced 16 points and 13 rebounds to go along with 15 points and 12 rebounds from Jennifer Walkling, as Westminster avenged an earlier loss in cruising to a 56-30 victory over the much shorter Lions. "It was revenge. Our whole attitude was different," said Bollinger, a front-runner for county Player of the Year.

With nine of its first 11 games on the road. No. 20 Westminster last night made certain to not let its home opener go to waste. Forward Emily Bollinger scored 29 points, including 21 in the first half, as the host Owls ran out to an 18-0 lead and never looked back in a 75-32 win over Fallston, a team expected to challenge in Harford County. For a team that last Wednesday looked overmatched in a 14-point, season-opening loss to Centennial, returning to Westminster - where the Owls lost just once a season ago - proved a huge psychological boost.

With Westminster's top player unable to take the floor last night, the defense of host Liberty held court last night in an ugly 35-33 win. Using a vexing matchup zone, the Lions held the Owls - playing without forward Emily Bollinger, the county's leading scorer at more than 16 points per game - to 19 percent shooting with 23 turnovers in capturing their biggest win of the young season. "She's definitely one of their key players," Liberty's Holly Steinacker said of Bollinger, who missed her first game after spraining a foot on Saturday.

A Baltimore County judge yesterday convicted a boat mechanic of being an accessory after the fact of murder in the killing of a 10-year-old boy found strangled and floating in Middle River with his bicycle in 1982.Circuit Judge Thomas J. Bollinger Sr. convicted John E. Stump -- who was 15 at the time of the death -- of concealing Adam E. Faulkner's body in the water by weighing it down with a cinder block.Stump, now 31, was arrested in September, along with his elder brother, Roger Stump, 33, who is awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge for allegedly strangling the boy in the early morning of June 29, 1982.