BALTIMORE — In a Baltimore courtroom one July afternoon, attorneys scrambled to make sense of the overlapping cases that brought Javarick Gantt to court.
Gantt, a deaf man who relied on sign language, had missed earlier hearings and failed to check in with his probation officer. His file listed an Indiana mailing address. His cases stalled amid pandemic restrictions and court closures.
Gantt explained his struggles navigating the bureaucracy of the Baltimore court system.
