Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon’s trial began Monday, and as I-Team lead investigative reporter Jayne Miller said, there’s a lot at stake, regardless of the outcome. In the fall of 2007, Dixon made history by becoming the first woman to win the job as Baltimore mayor, but two years later, a very different history-making event is about to begin. The upcoming trial will put the city’s mayor in the spotlight and her future on the line. “If she wins, then she can claim to have been innocent, and whether that claim is believed by everybody is a different story, but she’ll have a dismissal of charges or finding of not guilty, and then she’ll be able to motor on,” said Donald Norris, chair and professor of public policy.
The article, “Trial Puts Lots At Stake for Mayor Dixon,” ran Friday, November 6, on WBAL TV Baltimore 11.
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