The jurors have announced a verdict in the retrial of Policarpio Espoinoza and Adan Canela ... GUILTY!! Judge David Mitchell ordered a pre-sentence investigation and scheduled sentencing for September 21, 2006.
For backstory, Julie Bykowicz has a guide to the case.
In the Western, a man was shot in the head and a teen was stabbed in the back.
Dewayne Blanche Jones Jr. was shot to death in Middle River.
Dennis James Wallace, 52, was arrested for the 1983 murder of William Gibson.
From Sunday's Post-- "The general public has no idea, and I mean no idea, about the messed-up lives these kids lead until they're dead. The public has no idea about the neglect, the foster homes, the violent acting out, the filth, the mother's boyfriend that abuses them -- the public doesn't know. Doesn't want to know."
Weathered windbag Dan Rodericks blogs about the case in which Judge Schwait accepted a "softie deal" which resulted in 7 months in prison for the pedophile who (allegedly) later stabbed 11-year-old Irvin Harris to death.
A high-school football coach pimped a 15-year-old student to a D.C. police officer, who is now out of jail.
Black widow Josephine Grey, rumored to have used voodoo to intimidate witnesses, was resentenced to 40 years for insurance fraud.
Boozehound Dwayne S. Williams, who killed a woman in a drunk-driving accident, also had a criminal record.
You'll shoot your eye out ... because the gun is just too cute!
WTF? A Forest Hill man assaulted his neighbor with a leaf blower and BB gun.
Former Ehrlich homeslice Joe Steffen, who'd previously agreed to cooperate with investigators, is fighting a subpoena to testify before the legislature. Update-- Judge to Steffen: T.S.
Still into "The Wire"? Cast, writers and crew will be signing copies of the third-season DVD tonight at 7 at Sound Garden.
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Tommorow's Examiner will include an interview with BCPD police officers about telling tales under oath in court.
Just thougt I'd re-post these observations from yesterday...
Do y'all realize that only seven months into the year, Baltimore already has about two and a half times the total annual murders of Boston and one and a half times the annual murders of Atlanta? Three times the annual murders in Minneapolis and twice those of Oakland?
Next month we'll exceed the total annual murders of the District of Columbia, and they've declared a crime emergency.
WTF ???
I moved here from nyc three months ago as my rent was half what I paid and my apt in charles village is twice the size. Almost as soon as I got here, people told me not to walk around after 9pm, and I started paying attention to my surroundings---where are all the people here? It seems that anyone can rob you here and the cops do nothing...I'm already looking to get out when my lease runs out, hey I may pay $2500 to live in park slope, but I swear this bs level of crime is not tolerated in nyc. where are all the long term citizens here screaming in the streets about it, or are they just cowering in their homes??
To me, Baltimore is like a beaten spouse. From the outside, the treatment is intolerable and unacceptable, and no one understands why the person stays in an abusive marriage. But from the inside, it's the only thing you know and you're used to it. You've been broken down.
Ironically, NYC had terrible crime 15 years ago. The people of NY lived largely the way you describe the people of Baltimore living today. Change is possible.
FYI: a woman driving on Liberty Road was shot at early this morning and chased by a pursuing car. Police are trying to see if anyone saw anything.
Actually, Chuck, 15 years ago NYC was pretty comfortable. You'd need to look back to maybe 25 years ago to get to the real nastiness.
The interesting thing is, while there I had very few incidents requiring police intervention, when I did, they were very proactive. Not excuses. They took the view that something unfortunate had occurred and that they would have to adapt their patrol strategies to make sure it couldn't recur.
Our government just shrugs and asks "What do you want me to do?"
Um, your job..., actually.
I think part of thr reason so few citizens take up arms and march on City Hall is our local demographics: many, many Baltimoreans have criminals in their families and households, so enhanced enforcement actually has a negative side to it.
In New York, I think, you've always had a really considerable population of folks who live the straight and narrow and really only associate with family and friends who do the same. I certainly never had personal knowledge of felons and their activities in NY. There might have been a bunch of them in Bed-Stuy, but I never knew those people. If I met them on a subway, I certainly didn't associate with them.
Baltimoreans have way too much sympathy for its criminal class and way too little sense of civic responsibility to its noncriminal class.
The other thing is that Baltimoreans don't look to their government so much for competent public service provision as for entitlements. "I don't care if the street is lined with potholes for the public, because I got my voucher for free housing or medical care." The problem is, those things are private, not public, goods. All the Baltimore govt. is doing is to tax down the base and hand out free money. It's a downward spiral, once people like the writer from Charles Village refuse to pay $1,300 to be here.
I moved to NYC during David Dinkins' term, and my perceptions of the city were that it was improving but was still far from safe. It wasn't until Giuliani was elected that the city's economic growth really blossomed and led to the inevitable gentrification of previously "uninhabitable" neighborhoods.
Current Baltimore reminds me of New York at the end of Dinkins' term, which is why I'm so nervous about the upcoming election. We really need someone who can build on the good that O'Malley has done while addressing his shortcomings. Frankly, I don't think Sheila D. is up to the task.
Like I said,
Heads he wins, tails we lose. Tails he loses, heads we also lose.
This ain't gonna be good.
Frankly, the way NYC neighborhoods became inhabitable was by displacing hoodlums to some nearby place, like New Jersey, the Bronx or the Rockaways. That requires that you have a waiting list of viable people very nearby with which to fill those newly-inhabitable neighborhoods. We don't have that. Our neighborhoods don't flow from one to the next, with more or less smooth changes in socio-economic characteristics. We have nice, upperclass enclave and then, across the street, nasty murderous ghetto, within 50 feet. You'd need to demolish large contiguous chunks of surplus city and then force the (wrong) people out at gunpoint, so that they don't 'infect' what remains intact. In urban planning, it's called a cordon sanitaire.
Oh, the other thing is, anyone who's unhappy with the lousy state of policing here should call their councilman and make their feelings known. Please.
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