A possible robbery turned into a very definitive shooting in Glen Oak. A man was shot in the back Friday night at the 5700 block of Chinquapin Parkway.
Police are ISO a perv who raped a transgendered teen back in November. Though, with his face being plastered everywhere, it should only be a matter of time.
30 years in prison for the death of a County teen. Jason Gross, 37, was given the 30-year term for the murder of Rochelle Battle, despite the fact that her body has yet to be found.
Finally, several charges were thrown out in the last day of trial in the Skateworks rape case. Several charges were thrown out Friday, including first degree rape and assault charges. But after deliberating for several hours the jurors were not able to come to a decision.
I decided to take a trip to the Circuit Courthouse in Baltimore County Friday, to watch a few cases and just generally get a feel for how the county courts were handling cases. I bore witness to a bevy of cases, some interesting, some not so much. I managed to miss all the cases I had wanted to see, including the sentencing of Jason Gross, and the trial of Jeremiah Edwards, who was facing car theft charges, but more importantly was indicted for a Dundalk murder late last year.
I had completely forgotten that the Skateworks trial was going on, and sure enough, I walked into what I thought was a random jury trial, and instead found out to my surprise, that I had in fact walked into the closing statements of the Skateworks trial. I was both horrified, because I had up until then done a good job of burying my head in the sand about this case, and disappointed, because the state had done a very weak job of presenting their case against Davon Perry, 26. Although I had only been to the final portion of the trial, I got the sense that, had I been in the jury box some 10 feet away, my confidence in giving a conviction would have been sub-par a best.
But my trip to the courts wasn't entirely horrendous. I did catch the sentencing of Andrew Palmer, who if you may recall, was the man who made headlines for faking seizures at restaurants to avoid paying his tab. Palmer was on trial for... faking seizures! This time, at a local Applebees. Unfortunately for Palmer, his case was heard by the Honorable Judge Sherrie R. Bailey, who is by far my favorite judge now, after her non willingness to let repeat offenders walk. And golly, Andrew Palmer was a repeat offender, with, and I quote the prosecutor: "a 116 page criminal record" Palmer has been around. Around so much, in fact, that he was caught in the act due to the fact that a paramedic who responded to the scene recognized him from a prior fake seizure. The only line of defense Palmer offered before sentencing was the fact that he has been held since June on these charges, and last Friday he had supposedly "been nearly beaten to death by an inmate serving 127 years without parole." Of course, the great Judge Bailey wasn't interested in his sob story, and gave him the maximum, 18 months.
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The Mayor is barking up the wrong tree to repopulate this city.
The strategy outlined is essentially to find someone desperate enough to live somewhere in the U.S. that they will even live in this dump.
Hence, Rawlings-Blake is looking to turn Baltimore's estimated 300,000 person excess housing stock into refugee housing.
Wrong. Backwards.
The correct question to ask is: how many well-adjusted, economically self-sufficient, law-abiding, drug-nonaddicted persons would be willing to live in Baltimore, IF most of the people outside that definition were removed.
Suppose the answer is 350,000.
Then, 900,000 minus 350,000 leaves you with a need to decimate about 550,000 persons-equivalent housing units and shrink the city's service area, lowering municipal overhead and therefore, property tax rates. That would be about 200,000 housing units, assuming a family size averaging about 2.5.
Do not instead populate those 200,000 units with whosoever from the bottom of the barrel is willing to live with bullets whizzing by and homes being broken into. Baltimore nonprofits always reply that the city should use those units for homeless druggies instead. No, no one wants them for neighbors. Exile them from the jurisdiction or incarcerate them instead, thank you.
Baltimore needs to purge itself of folks who are indifferent to or engaged in illegality.
Now, if in fact there are nice, law-abiding immigrants who want to come here and live at a middle American sort of standard, then fine. Perhaps we should deport our criminal element and swap them for newbies.
But please, please do not turn Baltimore into yet more of a sanctuary city for people who will not be called upon to obey the basic laws.
I am really glad they caught that serial rapist guy. I feel so horrible for the Skateworks girl, it sounds like she'll have to go through the whole trial *again*. It's good to have your perspective on the state's case, because I heard it immediately assumed the problem was jury was a bunch of wackjobs. It seems like if she was 12 and he was 26, the state would not have to prove a lack of consent, and for that matter I wonder why the perps are not being charged with child sex offenses. "Brown said the victim, now 13, was not as naive as prosecutors portrayed her to be. He made reference to the revealing shorts she was wearing." ... SHE WAS 12!!!
The girl was rollerskating, a burqa would get caught in the wheels.
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