The murder/ suicide killer and victim from last Thursday were named: Latasha Harris, 30, and Jerry Bennett, 37.
Tastelessness of the week: "The driver of the city bus on which a woman was severely beaten testified yesterday that he remembered the boy who kicked her in the face but that he wasn't among the accused in the courtroom. Then, the attorney for the boy prosecutors allege kicked Sarah Kreager in the eye threw her arms up in a 'touchdown' sign."
Corrpution Corner
Maybe "The Wire" made this city look too good!
Baltimore City Police Sgt. Robert Smith claims that the city police department’s chief legal counsel told him to drop a defamation lawsuit against the department or face false rape charges.
A second guilty plea in the Utech scandal.
OMG, bitch, puhleeze! Rikki Spector's excuse for her "stupid" traffic ticket = she sent it to the DOT because they needed to know that the officer who cited her was "not dealing well with the public."
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More shootings in Baltimore this morning.
yay, galt's back! Where did you go?
For those readers who are closely following the trial of Sarah Kreager (oops, the kids accused of beating Sarah Kreager), perhaps some insight can be gained into the reasons for the huge amount of plea-bargaining which goes on in the criminal courts of Baltimore. Many crime scenes like this are chaotic; witnesses often differ; and victims who are emotionally traumatized often have a difficult time then, during identification, and especially at trial. The defendants have many advantages.
So, sometimes the state's prosecutors, who I believe are hardworking, dedicated public servants for the most part, take the best deal they can get in or to get some modicum of justice.
The sad truth is that in this case, it would be very unlikely, unless the kids have horrific records, for there to be any real punishment anyway. And, since the cases are being handled in juvenile court, they can legally say on job applications, etc., that they have never been convicted of a crime--even if they are found delinquent (guilty in juvie terms).
oh yeah, they're going to be sentenced to manicures.
Juvenile cases don't have a jury, do they? So it's all up to a judge, right?
Actually, most juvie cases are handled by Juvenile Court "Masters"; I believe Judge David Young, who's handling this case, only handles only the most serious cases. And, no, since they're considered a "civil" or "rehabilitation" case, the kids are not entitled to a jury.
I actually wonder, since the kids don't face any real consequences (usually), why they and their attorneys are dragging this thing on. One can easily see the diffusion of blame and responsibility as to who did what--and didn't the most serious perpetrators perhaps escape before the gendarmes arrived?
The excuse of the parking ticket reminded me of a show that I saw park of last weekend.
"Parking Wars", I think on A&E, It's a "reality" show that followes the men and women who work at the Philadelphia Parking authority. Not knowing what was edited out, there were 2 guys from out of town with a rental car who had their car towed from a no parking lane. All they could do was complain about the lack of profesionalism, and try to argue with the guy at the impound lot about the towing and ticket.
The jist was that they had to follow the rules like everyone else and have all their paperwork together as well as the money paid before they could get the car back.
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