A city judge denied Vernon Evans' appeal.
Thanks to support from Rod J. Rosenstein, we may get a new federal prison in Baltimore.
Are there going to be height markers on church doorways following a flagrant armed robbery during a service in HarfCo?
Who knew that making counterfeit bus passes was so lucrative?
"Hewwo, pwincipal.. we're gonna bwow up the thchool!"
Sounds like the gov. is a real ass of an employer.
Delegate Don Dwyer: if it's not in "concert with the laws of nature and of nature of God, and I would hold that, therefore, it is no law at all."
(Wonder what God said to Dwyer about the gay penguins and lesbian swans).
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I don't know if the governor is an ass; it seems that he simply applied the lessons learned in his time in Washington. First, the proper use of power is to accumulate more power. Second, the job of the elected official is to ensure his re-election. This has been the only consistent theme in the Republican party for the past fifteen years.
I have a relative who works on a state criminal justice task force. He said the videos, press releases, etc. that his office releases are vetted by the governor's office and that there is no pretense at accuracy, timeliness, or even relevance -- everything they produce is subjected, first and foremost, to a single litmus test. "How does this make the Governor look?"
So, we need a 650-bed federal detention center in Baltimore? I thought my neighborhood WAS the detention center. We could save a lot of money by just putting a roof over Berea-Clifton and buying 650 mattresses.
Better idea: add the federal prison to the municipal convention center. Use plexiglass walls except in the bathrooms and bill it as a Baltimore men's interpretive exhibit. The tourists from the Con(vention) Center could cross a skybridge over to the Con(vict) Center and check out daily life for Baltimore males. Then, on the way out, they can purchase official 'Homicide' and 'The Wire' hoodlum wear, together with the Stop Snitchin' cd by the original artists. You could run a shuttle over to 'the Corner' of Pratt & Fulton and then sent the visitors back to their hotel rooms with a complimentary 40 oz. Steel Reserve in a champagne bucket and a crack vial laid artfully on their pillows. AND, it's deductible.
I love to read your blogs Mr. Galt, they are so funny at times, and always right on the money.
Maggie
Actually, we COULD piggyback the prison onto the Con Center at no additional cost. Here's how.
The city's planning to spend $305MM on it, when the underlying hotel is worth only about $110MM. With competitive bidding, my math says you'd free up $185MM of porkbarrel... I mean, uh, excess,.. yeah,... excess costs.
I look forward to the exhibit where they show how to make wine in a trash bag, and also the display of artifacts recovered from con's poop chutes. And Friday nights there could be fights in the arena-- homemade weapons only (ballpoint-pen shiv vs. toilet-fixture shank!) Sure to be a bigger draw than the kookaburras across the way.
Hey not really related to today's post but Vernon Lee Evans clemency video is available to be viewed...
Although it seems he has done some good since being incarcerated and he may have had a rough childhood, does that mean he should be granted a stay?
I hate to say it but these anti death penalty people need to have a family member murdered, have the killer brag about it to neighbors and acquaintances of theirs, then see if they don't feel like I do when i say if you kill , unless to protect your own life, you should die as well. Only in Baltimore could a killer get so much media attention.... maybe I should kill someone to become important...it's the baltimore way
Here's the link to the clemency video
http://www.savevernonevans.org/ClemencyVideo.html
What I feel to apprehend with respect to Evans is that if in fact he didn't do it, why would his hard childhood mitigate his crime (which didn't occur)?
Is a little consistency too much too much to ask of someone who is asking the Governor to make exceptional accommodations ?
Good point Galt, but don't post that on his blog, i have been getting messenger invites and people telling me i don't believe in god among other things.
Another thing i don't understand how giving him an iv to administer the lethal injection is "cruel and unusual punishment" because of"his years of heroin use". Maybe using the heroin was his own self inflicted "cruel and usual punishment"
Regarding the Hopkins philosophy professor's observation that armed robbery of a church would never have been thinkable in the past, I guess he hasn't heard of the separation of church & state. After all, what's the world coming to when the Church interferes with our inalienable right under Maryland to rob and steal? I'm callin' my lawyer Warren Brown to file a class action suit on behalf of all us upstanding criminals. We're an oppressed majority.
I just realized... the per-room construction cost estimated for the federal detention center is ony 10% less than the per-room cost of a middle market hotel accommodation. WTF ? It does NOT cost $100,000 per inmate to house these hoods if you're interested at all in cost containment. Maybe we should just send them to New Orleans.
In order for the death penalty meet the legal requirements set out in 1977, the jury must be able to consider mitigating circumstances. If they weren't presented to the jury, then the sentence isn't legal, and his lawyers have a responsibility to point that out.
What is disturbing about this case is that there was only one eyewitness, and she claims Evans was not the shooter. There's no physical evidence. He was convicted based on his ex-girlfriend's testimony, which she gave in exchange for a deal. It just doesn't sound very solid.
Thanks dc for adding those facts. And the right for the defense to argue whatever it is they want to argue is part of the wonder of the legal process in America. I suppose, galt, that mitigating factors should never be considered. I'm sure you've never tried to get out of speeding ticket by telling the officer you were running late for something important or that you live in the mostly well behaving part of baltimore.
O shit, did you just catch me responding to your brash remarks. . .? --Kevin
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