At a hearing today, Payton Brown, 22, pled guilty to second-degree murder before Judge John M. Glynn. Judge Glynn will sentence Brown on September 25, 2006 at which he faces a maximum of 25 years in prison (a pretty sweet deal considering murder in the commission of a crime gets the death penalty in other jurisdictions). On October 12, 2005, Brown and an unidentified suspect known only as "G" attempted to rob the victim, Brandon Cherry, 21. During the robbery, Cherry resisted and was shot and killed. The murder occurred in the Northwood Shopping Center near the Morgan State University campus.
Back in America for the next five days! Let us all take a moment to kiss the ground of this wonderful country where we have the right to information, assembly, a speedy trial, a free education to age 18, drinkable tap water, the opportunity to pick one's own career and to gossip about the love lives of government officials. May we never take it for granted! If you're reading this, you're one of the luckiest people on the planet, even if you live in Oakenshawe. I love you Baltimore!A drop of blood may link murdered children to Espinoza and Canela.
I was amazed to see the headline "Senate candidate accused of raping wife", because when I was studying things legal there was no such thing as spousal rape. The good news is that as of nine years ago in Maryland it did indeed become a crime. Old men marrying Latvian teenagers = still legal.
Demetri Greer, 18, was charged with killing 15-year-old Dion Williams (#145).
Rapist of 91-year-old woman: "I don't know what kind of drug-induced coma I was in."
The person shot on Loyola Southway (#148) was a woman, not a man: 47-year-old Bernadette Reed. Sunday's other victim (#149) was named as Norman Tyrone Handy, 33. And, up in the Jewniverse, a couple was kidnapped but foiled a would-be robber.
A former Park School teacher, Stanley Ashman, who worked at the school for 35 years, was accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in the '70s, and also assaulting a girl recently in Michigan.
NAACP president Doc Cheatham: "I'd like to be buried in a blue suit."
Alan Syvlester of New York got a life sentence for using taxi drivers to haul crack to Frederick.
It's so totally time for a new web poll. (If you can't see the poll, scroll down to the bottom.) Results of the previous can be seen here. O'Malley's in the lead, though no one seems terribly jazzed about it.
Dept. of Baltimoriana:
Atomic Teevee has a priceless reel of old Natty Boh TV ads.
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Let us all take a moment to kiss the ground of this wonderful country...
You know, after returning from my last foreign journey I did exactly that. And I was coming in from effin' Canada!
When I got back from my last trip in April at BWI all I wanted to do was get back on the plane and get the heck out of here. Baltimore and parts of WV are utopia, the rest of this place is a materialistic McMansioned money-grubbing obese messpot.
The day I retire will be the day I'm gone for good.
Welcome back! Your timing is excellent as I've been stuck in meetings all day and won't have time to update until tonight. Now that you're back, wanna discuss the love life of Mao?
He abandoned his first wife for his second, then his second for the third (without telling the second one), and then let the second be executed even though he could have stopped it, had a ton of mistresses... he was a right bastard (not to mention the whole "killing 70 million people" thing).
The new Jung Chang bio is actually pretty juicy!
"There are those who suggest the NAACP is no longer relevant," he said. "We beg to differ. If that was true, we would not be having this discussion today."
Huh. So according to the Cheatham article, we had 29 hate crimes in Baltimore City in 2004. According to police statistics, we've had 149 homicides so far in 2006. The vast majority of this year's murders involve black victims and black attackers.
Sounds to me like the NAACP is maybe more relevant than ever. Too bad they seem to have their priorities completely ass-backwards.
Oh, but I guess the people of Baltimore don't really matter to the NAACP, do they? The people of DC... now those are some good people.
(Can't help but throw a little gasoline on the fire every once in a while.)
Yeah, they're an odd bunch, the NAACP, it doesn't seem like they've stood for or done much of anything of consequence since about 1965.
Under MD Law you can be charged with raping your spouse if one uses force or the threat of force. Under commom law there was no such offense.
Lane v. State, 348 Md. 272
this is a long overdue comment as i just saw your blog, but i want to correct something - butch ashman was NOT accused of assaulting anyone in the 30 years since the original actions. the woman who he had sex with while she was a 9th grader (obviously unacceptable) came forward now because she found out he was teaching in michigan. but he has not been accused of any innapropriate behavior with anyone since those incidents 30 years ago.
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