A couple convicted of charges that they paralyzed a man following a fight over a cleaning cart.
The State's Attorney's office reports that yesterday, after a jury was seated and his murder trial was moments away from starting, Anthony Thompson, 50, pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 30 years in prison, all but 15 years suspended, and five years probation. Sunpapers has the horrible details.
Fenton: educators tried to push gang leader's book of teachings on Mayor Dixon
DNA evidence links a man in MA to a 2003 home-invasion robbery and murder in Brooklyn.
Correction: the Hopkins Hospital identity-theft story from yesterday was actually not related to the other Hopkins Hospital identity theft story but is a completely new case!
Also, in the 60s, Hopkins tried to change a guy into a girl.
Exhibit A's Mike Silvestri: "Police officers’ failure to go to court in Baltimore last year allowed thousands of suspects, including nearly 200 charged with felonies, to walk free, according to state’s attorney’s office data."
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Whoa, another federal death penalty case? I hadn't heard about this one, and I try very hard to keep abreast of all things capital-punishment related. Hopefully I'll get some satisfaction from this one after the letdown of the Patrick Byers trial.
Speaking of Byers, did anyone hear Carl Lackl's mother on the Ed Norris show? I listened to it on the podcast yesterday, and I was incredibly moved by her courage and strength. The difference between Lackl's family and the loathsome degenerates who spawned Patrick Byers is quite something.
thanks for letting me know about the podcast, I was hoping they'd put that up. Sometimes an Ed rant is just the thing.
Just curious, PP, how did you get so passionate about this issue?
mjb:
I'm not sure. Having a couple of my classmates from college murdered certainly didn't help.
One thing that's really appalled me is how soft on crime European countries have become since they've done away with the death penalty. Did you know that the longest serving prisoner in modern Danish history was paroled after about thirty years despite the fact that he murdered FOUR unarmed police officers? I fear that if we do away with the death penalty then we will slide down that path. Hell, I figure the biggest reason to keep the DP on the books in Maryland is that it keeps life w/o parole safe. We'll never actually execute anyone again, but as long as we theoretically keep capital punishment then criminal-friendly legislators like Lisa Gladden have to support life w/o parole. If we do away with the DP then I am certain that she will begin working on making sure that life does not mean life.
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