The juries in Baltimore are historically pro-criminal so if Sheila is tried here it would be a quick Not Guilty. There is no justice here in the city. Thugs run wild, politicians steal and many of the citizens allow this to happen day after day.

If the trial actually goes forward and takes place in Baltimore city, what chances do you think the prosecution has of getting a conviction?
They should have let the fed's take ovet the investigation and have the trial in federal court where they would have had a better chance of getting a conviction.

So what you're saying is that the only way a white prosecutor can get a "fair" trial with the desired "fair" outcome is to take black folks to the "burbs" where they"ll get the "fair" verdicts from folks who really know about justice? Is this what they have to do to so many young men who right or wrong don't get convicted in the City because of weak cases? Maybe that should be the real focus of some future grand jury???

Seems to me the Feds dumped this waste of our tax money a few years ago....

I'm sick of all of the press that the media does about Mayor Dixon. Maybe the prosecutor should work this hard to convict the Drug dealers and the killers. I've been on juries where the prosecutors couldn't provide enough evidence to even arrest the dealer.

I can't believe the Sun is printing "anonymous" comments. If people can't own up to their comments they should not be published.

STEALING gift cards solicited for Baltimore's poor kids? Laundering thousands in cash to pay a credit card?
Complaining you need to pay for college as the reason you want to keep a raise?
Going on shopping sprees for $8000 a shot?

No, she has done nothing wrong.

"Sick of the bull" before you talk you should do some research, this prosecutor's sole purpose is to prosecute corrupt governmental officials.

Ignorance is bliss isn't it, YOU FOOL

she need to go to jail she is a theft i dont care how they call it she stole from the city... the city in which she was suppose to be running...

Just want to say that I hear people say it was under 25,000.00 so lets look the other way. No big deal because she has done other good things. Lets remember that Ed Norris, the best police commissioner the city ever had was put into Federal prison over an amount much smaller and was not even accused of stealing public money public money. I guess that if our great Governer O' Taxey wanted Sheila Dixons head she would already be in jail. Of course they are all just peas in a large corrupt pod.

If she done what she is accused of, which seems to be already proven, why do people think her outcome will be different no matter where she is tried. If she is found not guilty anywhere, those who rendered this verdict should be tried for corruption also. Our judges should be held accountable for things like that if it happens. Guilty is guilty even if its our mayor. Sorry!

Don't be so quick to judge the jury pool in the city.

As one of the few who actually show up when called, my experience has been most people there are thoughtful and reasonably intelligent. I have been an alternate on a jury, and I have been weeded out of a jury, both times i felt pretty comfortable with the makeup of the jury.

In a case like this, it will be difficult to find people who either haven't formed an opinion already, or already have an opinion of the Mayor (I didn't vote for her because I was already pretty sure she was a criminal). I'd like to think I could still be fair if on her jury, though.

I'm glad I read the indictment...every last page! If the grand jury voted to indict based on viewing the evidence, they have a case. Who cares that she's a black person running a predominently black populated town? If she's a crook, she goes to jail!!!

Sorry Dick...... my name is Buz Wolfe

I've served on several juries in Baltimore City over the last 20 years. All of the cases warrented conviction and that's the way we voted.

At least let her get her day in court before you put her under the jail . Doesn't everyone get to have there day in court first ? I know some folks that live in the city that are very capable of sitting on a jury and making the correct decision . But first let's give her her day in court .

Do the citizens of Baltimore remember that they voted for both crooks(governor and mayor) knowing that they were both crooks before they took office? This is what happens when you vote along party lines instead of voting for the best candiate.I have worked for the citizens of baltimore for 26 years and have seen things that if the public knew there would be riots in this city for many days.BUT THE CITIZENS ARE TREATED LIKE MUSHROOMS AND FED MANURE EVERY DAY!! the citizens of baltimore and maryland reap what you sow

This is what happens when the people of Baltimore allow the government(both city and state) to keep them in the dark and feed them manure and expect daisies. I have worked for the citizens of Baltimore for 26 years and seen and heard alot of manure. Keep those blinders on people and expect something to change.

Everybody knows in America, you are GUILTY until proven INNOCENT. The press is the first to try the case and depending on what the press comes up with, is the verdict. That's a frighting system to live by, but its the new way of life in America. Now about Shelia Dixon, according to the Holy Bible no women should be head over man, so by default Dixon shouldn't be mayor anyway, but its by default she became mayor. About her charges, I dont know, let a jury of twelve honest men and women decide. I just wish who ever is mayor would fix the damn POT HOLES all over the city, so I can stop screwing up my car every week. And for God sakes get rid of the nasty RATS I have to stare at every evening in the rear of my apartment building and who eat the alternator belts off my car. People, we have all SINED and fell short of the glory of God

Thanks for listening
Mark Pfeltz

It will certainly be interesting to see if the judge can seat what he/she considers a fair and impartial jury! If they can't get people who haven't been innundated by the news coverage (and I think Weiner did his press conference to influence the Jury Pool) then the judge would have to honor the request. And if the judge refuses to do his/her job (in spite of being re-elected which is not the main consideratin a Judge in Baltimore City should have, and if they do then they should be brought up before the Judicial Review Body to determine if they are qualified to be a Jurist) the Prosecution can make an emergency appeal to the Court of Appeals which probably does have the stamina to move the trial. Look carefully at the indictment ... smoking guns in Baltimore City Employee #1 and Developer A Employee #1. Shoe's time is running out as Mayor! Soon she will be Inmate # ....... Yep, I did nullify myself as a Juror and I hate to have done so. But I'm white and male and educated ... I'm always nullified from Jurys by prosecutors and defense attorneys!

i'll bet a million dollars that every one
complaining here voted for bush twice .

So who cares what they think , we don't in Baltimore and she will never be convicted

she is going to be found not guilty because, of who she is. who really cares about this situation, because if it wasn't her taking the money, then it would have been another mayor (black or white) taking the money. everybody is worried about what she did, let's worry about why there have been 14 murders, this year already.

Yes, if a trial is required it should be held in Baltimore - the jurisdiction in which the crimes (???) occured. I beg everyone to pay close attention to the details and wait until all the evidence and facts are disclosed before making any judgements about anything. There is much more to this than the public has been told, as is always the case!! Go Sheila!!!!!

Thugs run wild, politicians steal and citizens suffer and every city for that much. If she's tried in another state of course her chances of being found not guilty are less because she is not known in that city. That's common sense. Half of the things that have been "donated" to the under priveledge families never make it to them and haven't for years. The mayors and politicians have been commiting dirty crimes for years it just happened to catch up to her.

Can't we wait and let the jury render it's verdict? Mayor Dixon is presumed innocent until proven otherwise. Why smear the jury before it's seated? Let's hear the evidence and let the jury decide. No ones going to be happy no matter what the decision is; but that's the system. Some innocent people get wrongly convicted and some crooks get to walk. Hopelfully the jury renders a fair and honest verdict.

Sheila Dixon raised my water bill to over $60.00 a quarter,while Baltimore County uses our water for 1/3 the cost,she wasted money on painting Bike lanes through the city,instead of fixing the streets or putting more cops on the street,Now she is lying,stealing from the working and poor,she has been corrupt for sometime,while giving herself a raise,I wonder if the rest of the people that work for the city are getting a raise,She is a pitifull excuse for a Mayor,she should resign,but she will stay so she can steal more from the taxpayers

Okay, let's look the other way on all the charges. If she moves up the ladder of politics and possibly, maybe, becomes Governor, then we would totally trust her with the State budget....I don't think so.

"The people of Baltimore were qualified to judge her during the election; why not in court?" You must be joking. Her honesty, integrity and character were issues long before her election and the "qualified" citizens elected her anyway!

More than anything else I think she's done a better job as Mayor than almost any of us expected. So far I haven't heard of any special treatment that Lipscomb got from Dixon as Council President. The gift cards piece looks bad, but it doesn't seem worthy of the indictment or the attention it is taking away from the more important issues facing the City.

Sheila Dixon has the same right as everyone else of being innocent until PROVEN guilty. The problem with the court of public opinion is that statements can be feed by the news media without verification or the threat of perjury charges. A person's reputation can be destroyed before they even go to court. The only true and valid trial is NOT the one held by news organizations, but the one held in the court room. The job of the media is to report the news and news is after the event. Lately they has taken it upon themselves to be prosecutors. Then when evidence is presented in court that shows a person's innocence, people tend to believe the person just "got off", not realizing that it is more sensational for the media to cater to our bias to think the worst of most people and African Americans in particular. There are 2 ways to tell a lie. You can state a total untruth or you can only
tell that which supports your side giving a totally wrong impression having the
sum result be a lie. The news media is "destroying" Sheila Dixon with their biased reporting. The prosecutor is "loading up" the charges against Sheila Dixon. Their tactic is to charge her with so many wrong doings, it will be impossible for her to defend herself against all of them. The state has unlimited resources to take
away a person's freedom. That is proven by the fact that they could use tax money for 4 years to do so. When you take into account the number of innocent people who have been released from jail due to DNA evidence, it just goes to show you that prosecutors will sent an innocent person to jail and sleep nights. They don't need to care because there is no penalty for them to suffer for jailing the innocent. If Sheila Dixon is found innocent, the media will never report her defense as thoroughly as they have splashed the indictments against her on every news station and in newspaper they could, thus always leaving a cloud of guilt over her.