Forty-three-year-old Daniel Harp is accused of stabbing his 68-year-old mother, Nancy.
After pre-trial motions and just before jury selection was to begin, George Dobson, 42 (not to be confused with Fudgie), pled guilty to first-degree sex offense and first-degree assault. Dobson was sentenced to life in prison suspend all but 30 years, three years' probation, ordered him to have no contact with the victim, to undergo sex offender counseling and to register with the Maryland sex offense registry. On April 10, 2000 at approximately 2 a.m. Dobson attempted to rob the victim at 12 Mount Vernon Place, cut her throat and forcibly sodomized her. The victim was taken to Johns Hopkins hospital where a Sexual Assault Forensic Examination (SAFE) was performed. No suspects were identified at that time and the case was suspended. In October 2003 police received information from the Maryland State Police that Dobson's DNA matched the DNA collected in the SAFE exam.
Pedophile priest Jerome "Father Jeff" Toohey will serve 18 months in prison for sexually abusing a boy at Calvert Hall College in 1987. The victim, now a news anchor with CNN Headline News, was interviewed on JZ.
Dick Moore is one special pervert: the legislature changed the law just for him, making it illegal to travel across state lines to molest a make-believe minor. He pled guilty and will be sentenced May 12.
JZ's got video of Melissa Harton's confession.
Godfrey Bonsu, 44, and his wife, Victoria Boateng, 42 of Bowie were convicted of recruiting couriers from Ghana to bring heroin into the U.S. via their colons. Blech.
Dixon to Sun reporter: "Maybe sometime what you should do ... is to find out what the motives are from people who come to you."
A girl-on-girl knife attack in Woodlawn, an inmate kindling a fire in an air vent at Central Booking and plenty of armed and attempted robbery in the Blotter.
A suspect robbed the Reisterstown Road Radio Shack, crashed into a police car, got arrested, dropped dead.
Thirty-two-year-old Harold Greene could get life in prison from federal drug and gun charges.
An inmate was stabbed at Jessup. Meanwhile, correctional officers are planning to rally in Annapolis for security improvements following the death of Officer Jeffery A. Wroten.
The body found in Severn was identified as that of 25-year-old Johnathan Proctor.
Phillip Akbar Schabazz got a three-year prison term for stealing library books and selling them on the street.
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Lessee now, if if I've got this straight, Samuel Mercer, the financial officer of the Balto. City Museum of Industry, stole $325M in cash, doesn't have to repay it, and got 18 months in jail (before parole). This fellow Schabazz stole $4,000 of library books from Balto. Co. and got 36 months.
I guess I don't understand the 'New Math'. Do you think there are correspondence courses in criminality? Oh, yeah, the schoolteachers' workbooks. Forgot about those. Maybe I need to get one.
Are you saying you agree with liberals who boo-hoo about geographic disparity?
I think what I'm saying is.. that Baltimore City is a fundamentally flawed subculture.
In New York state 25% of seniors pass one or more Advanced Placement exams. In Baltimore City, 25% of black males pass. Anything.
It's not about a physical environment: it's behavioral. Why did children respond well to being removed to the Baraka School in Kenya? Because in Kenya they were taught a new word: 'No.' It is the beginning of respect for others. While you have nothing but contempt for others, how can you have any respect for yourself?
Only then can they build personal worth from within.
But you can't get started with the lousy signals this City sends out. People here are just doing what they're encouraged to. Baltimore virtually begs the guy to steal the money.
Don't 'Believe.'. First, 'Behave.'
The geographic disparity argument asserts that a statewide judicial system should apply similar treatment to similar circumstances, irrespective of location within the state. Why, then, does the executive branch not have an obligation to ensure the supply of behavioral supervision uniformly?
The theory of criminal justice asserts that the optimal penalty exacted is inversely proportional to the level of enforcementr effort.
Hence, either enforcement AND judiciary should be uniform statewide, or they should BOTH be determined locally.
SHABAZZ'S sentence could have been due, in part, to his prior criminal record. He may have pleaded to a lesser included offense of a larger and more serious crime that was either charged or under investigation. He even could have been part of a stolen goods-money laundering operation.
His sentence was not necessarily disparate.
the problems with liberals boo-hoo ing geographic disparity is that they want all sentences lessened to the lowest level as opposed to conservatives who want them raised to the highest level. J Mark did note that disparity could be the result of differences in the criminal background, but in this case it probably had more to do with political connections. And of course sentences are generally lighter in the city where many of the jurors have close relatives involved in the drug trade and many of the judges don't like sending people to jail.
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