Friday, March 14, 2008

No Death Penalty for David Miller

Remember David Lee Miller, who shot Elizabeth Walters, his 7-months-pregnant girlfriend, in the parking lot of the Home Depot strip mall off Perring Parkway? It seemed like he was going to be the first person to be charged under the new fetal-homicide law, but because the law rejected 'fetal personhood,' he won't be eligible for the big DP.

The Wall Street Journal columnist on Baltimore: the problem isn't poverty, it's crime.

Wendi ScottThese cases are so freaky. Wendi Scott, right, will plead guilty to one count of child abuse. She "had been using syringes to withdraw blood from her daughter so doctors would suspect [the daughter] had leukemia."

1 comment:

ppatin said...

Interesting Wall Street Journal article, however their anti-union bias is pretty blatant. I'm not a huge fan of organized labor, however their claim about unions & the Port of Baltimore is nonsense. The port didn't decline in importance because of unions, Baltimore is just too far up the Chesapeake compared to alternatives like Norfolk in Virginia.

As for teacher's unions, it's crappy parents that are the cause of Baltimore's shitty schools. There are plenty of excellent teachers out there, however they can't accomplish anything when many of their students have never had an adult in their lives who actually gets up and goes to a job in the morning.