Crime & Safety
PHOTOS: Werdesheims' Trial Continues, Dozens of Witnesses Expected
Witnesses from Baltimore City Police Department, the Shomrim neighborhood watch group, and others testified Thursday morning.
A variety of witnesses took the stand Thursday morning during the trial of Northwest Baltimore residents Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim.
The brothers are on trial regarding a Nov. 19, 2010, incident in which they allegedly beat 15-year-old Corey Ausby while they were on patrol for Shomrim, an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch group.
and was dismissed.
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Defense attorneys say the brothers acted in self defense after Ausby wielded a stick with nails protruding from it.
Thursday morning, the second day of the trial, a Cross Country resident, a crime lab technician from the Baltimore City Police Department, and a member of Shomrim neighborhood watch group testified as witnesses of the state.
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Baltimore City Circuit Judge Pamela White said there are about two dozen more witnesses to go.
It could take through the end of next week to hear the rest of the witnesses, she told the court Thursday.
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