Media Advisory: Baltimore City District Court Re-Entry Project celebrates 20 graduates at its twelfth ceremony

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 18, 2025

 

Government Relations and Public Affairs
187 Harry S. Truman Parkway
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

 

Media Advisory:
Baltimore City District Court Re-Entry Project celebrates 20 graduates at its twelfth ceremony
Retired Baltimore Ravens Wide Receiver Jermaine Lewis to function the keynote speaker

Approximately 20 graduates of the Baltimore City District Court Re-Entry Project (DCREP) can be acknowledged for his or her profitable completion of this system on Thursday, November 20, 2025. Presiding Baltimore City District Court Judge Nicole Pastore based DCREP in 2016 as a court-focused, felony recidivism initiative providing defendants a possibility to take part in full-time job coaching and job placement packages as a situation of their probation or in lieu of incarceration. To date, greater than 260 members have accomplished this system.

The DCREP graduates can be joined by household, buddies, judges, and prosecutors who have a good time their achievement. In addition, Jermaine Lewis, retired Baltimore Ravens vast receiver, will function keynote speaker. Lewis attended University of Maryland and commenced his National Football League profession with the Baltimore Ravens in 1996 and performed till 2001. He was a part of the Baltimore Ravens group throughout their win over the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV.

WHAT:	Baltimore City District Court Re-Entry Project’s twelfth commencement ceremony
WHEN:	Thursday, November 20, 2025, 11 a.m.
WHERE:	District Court in Baltimore City Eastside District Court Building, Courtroom 7 1400 E. North Avenue Baltimore, MD 21213
WHO:	District Court of Maryland Chief Judge John P. Morrissey Baltimore City District Court Administrative Judge Geoffrey G. Hengerer Baltimore City District Court Judge Nicole Pastore, presiding Retired Baltimore Ravens Wide Receiver Jermaine Lewis, keynote speaker Baltimore City District Court Re-Entry Project graduates

NOTE: Please contact the Maryland Judiciary, Government Relations and Public Affairs workplace, by e-mail at [email protected] or 410-260-1488, should you plan to attend or have questions. The use of pictures and/or video cameras contained in the courtroom can be restricted. Photographers/videographers can be allowed to take footage of the graduates throughout the ceremonial portion of the occasion. However, footage are usually not permitted whereas the choose is presiding over the DCREP docket on the bench. Judge Pastore and/or graduates could also be accessible for interviews earlier than or after the ceremony. Photography/videography requests needs to be accepted prematurely. Photographers should ask members for his or her consent previous to taking footage and/or video.

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