Ppatin notes that:
Omar Spriggs, who was injured in a quadruple shooting on May 15, has died.
Attempted murder charges against Brandon Allen have been dropped because the only witness against him was murdered a couple of weeks ago.
The ME has found that 63-year old Josephine House was strangled to death. Police say there were no other signs of foul play, and they have no potential suspect or motive.
And the trial of Brandon Grimes, alleged killer of Detective Troy Lamont Chesley Sr., has been postponed.
Here's more on the story from last year.
The P and I don't often agree, but I'm also puzzled as to why the SA's office didn't pursue the big D in this case. If there's any case that would seem to "merit" it, this would be it. (Though in a way it's an argument against the DP, because it's glaring, neon proof that the application is very inconsistent.)
More on the Tuesday-night stabbing at Baltimore and Charles. The victim, Shannon Dudley, "weighs less than 100 pounds and is passionate about being a barber."
Rodericks blogs on the 10-year sentence of the drunken Mexican who killed Marine Cpl. Brian Mathews and his lady, pointing out that while the victims' families were outraged, the 10 years is the heftiest drunk-driving sentence to be handed down in recent memory.
Enjoy troubling images? "The WBAL TV 11 News I-Team obtained photos that have never been seen by the public that raise troubling questions" about the now-closed Lower Shore Drill Academy in Wicomico County.
*I'm reprinting to put the links in "TinyUrl" so they won't be lost.
3 comments:
I've pondered the Brandon Grimes case some more, and I realized that he may not have been DP eligible. Det. Chesley wasn't on duty when he was killed, so that means they couldn't use the fact that he was a cop as an aggravating factor. Robbery-homicide is also a capital crime, but I'm not sure if attempted robbery counts, since I don't think that Grimes managed to steal anything from Det. Chesley.
As for the DP being applied inconsistently I'm afraid I couldn't agree more. Remember Raymont Hopewell? That monster made Steven Oken seem like a choir boy, but PJ still led him plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence.
I thought of the City Paper's merder revisited from last week (12 years for 6) when I read about the 55 years for 1 killing in HoCo. by my calculations that's over 27 times the time if you kill someone in HoCo vs the city. And this included some time off for the defendent due to his young age at the time of the crime.
I seem to recall having expressed frustration that Mr. Grimes hadn't been targetted for intensive police/probation supervision based upon his prior history, let alone shooting an officer.
This is a real litmus test of what kind of conduct can be expectd in Baltimore City. If Mr. Grimes gets a pass here, this jurisdiction should just be designated unfit for habitation.
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