A man was shot in the legs in the Southern, and in North Point double girl-on-girl stabbing action. Also in the blotter, four streetwalkers plying their trades were arrested near Patterson Park by one Officer Ogle.
There was an early-morning stabbing near Towson University.
Drunk, licenseless Charles Kirk Jr, 48, was arrested for the fatal hit-and-run of Sanjay Shetty at York and Bosley Roads on Saturday.
The family of Lamont Kennedy is asking for the public's help in finding the hit-and-run driver who killed him on Russell Street October 8.
Apparently one can be convicted of cocaine posession and distribution even if you don't posess any or distribute it-- being a lookout is enough.
Lots of stolen cars and armed stick-ups this week in the Northern.
Trials tomorrow:
The murder and attempted murder trial Emanuel Young, 24. Young is charged in three separate shooting incidents - five people were shot, one fatally. The Baltimore City Grand Jury indicted Young July 21, 2003 for the April 13, 2003 first-degree murder of Marcus Gordon, 20, in the 3000 block of Oakley Avenue. Two other men were wounded. Young was also indicted for the attempted murder of a 40-year old man who was shot June 11, 2003 in the 2300 block of West Fayette Street, as well as the attempted murder of a 21-year old female who was shot June 13, 2003 in the 2900 block of Oakley Avenue.
The murder trial of Terrence Wynn, 21, and Christopher Minor, 21, is scheduled to begin tomorrow before Judge John M. Glynn. The BCGJ indicted Wynn and Minor September 23, 2004 for first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Court documents allege that on August 30, 2004 Wynn and Minor shot to death Marshall Giles, 15, inside a home in the 3200 block of Lyndale Avenue.
The City Council is considering letting the city evict businesses and homeowners who violate noise ordinances twice in a one-year period. Quote of they day by Gene Carson, 71: "they just want to see how loud they can squeal."
Islam Abu Alrub, 39, got six years for embezzling $4.6 million from an Arbutus furniture company.
Baltimore City's own Stephanie L. Royster, Deputy State's Attorney and Chief of Staff and a 15-year veteran of the BC State's Attorney's Office, was named today to the Baltimore City Circuit Court by the governor. Also appointed was Barry Williams, 45. Unlike his more famous namesake, this Williams currently serves as special litigation counsel in the criminal section of the U.S. Department of Justice. He's a former law clerk for Judges Robert M. Bell and Arrie W. Davis and is a graduate of the University of Virginia (GO WAHOOS!) and earned his law degree at the University of Maryland School of Law.
4 comments:
Apparently one can be convicted of cocaine posession and distribution even if you don't posess any or distribute it-- being a lookout is enough.
my response:
Yes, this falls under the heading of 'aiding and abetting'. The operative principle is that one cannot frustrate the law merely by changing the form of an offense.
For instance, if three people walk into a bank, one holds a zippo lighter, one holds a stick of TNT, and the third demands money, they have all engaged in a robbery, even though the first had no explosive and was silent, the second had no means of ignition and was silent, and the third had no means of compulsion (in his possession) with which to extort the money.
Without such a principle of construction, dealers would be in a position to pay a five year old $10 to hold the stuff and then deny any involvement other than a 'friendly' curbside conversation with a passer by.
Here, the judge was convinced of a reasonable nexus between the solicitation of the defendant and the custodial response of his accomplice. Offer and acceptance cannot be defeated simply by interposing a straw agent.
absolutely. good response.--Kevin
I knew that was true for murder, but not for drugs. Now I know! BTW anonymous, who asked about drug dispositions, I asked the State's Attorney's office and they're working on the numbers. I asked for either a random month number (how many felony convictions in October?) or an average. I'm also interested to know.
Caution: numbers from the State's Attorney's office will be... funny. That is, they will tend to present conviction percentages, ignoring the effect of their plea-bargaining and null-prossing. Those effects are nontrivial and cannot be ignored.
Perhaps more importantly, it is not at all uncommon that in a multicharge case higher-level charges are dropped in a deal to plead guilty to lesser drug charges. Then you get a 100% sentencing/conviction rate on drugs and a 0% rate on firearms/agg. assault/attempted murder charges, which distorts the impression of what really happened. It ends up seeming as though we're tough on drugs but lenient on violence. This is why it's kind of incorrect to observe that a staggering number of young males on American cities are incarcerated on drug charges. They aren't there just for the drugs, but also for all the higher level charges from which they plea-bargained and which do not appear in the conviction record.
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