Overview

• Patrick Brice was convicted in February on two counts of second-degree assault and two counts of reckless endangerment after first-degree charges were dropped at trial.
• Judge Yvette M. Bryant ordered him to serve one year on home detention followed by three years of probation, with requirements for anger management, therapy, drug screenings and a ban on approaching abortion facilities.
• State prosecutors had sought a 10-year prison term to deter attacks motivated by political or religious views.
• Victims Mark Crosby, 73, and Richard Schaefer, 84, suffered serious injuries including Crosby’s orbital fracture and permanent eye damage but vowed to resume their activism.
• Advocates and legal experts criticized the ruling as evidence of leniency in Baltimore’s criminal justice system for violent assaults.