DNA evidence to be allowed at Harris slaying trial
Posted: 9:54 am Mon, August 30, 2010
By Associated Press
A judge will allow prosecutors to present DNA evidence linking a suspect to the fatal shooting of a former Baltimore city councilman.
The attorney for one of the young men on trial for the slaying of Kenneth Harris argued that police obtained his client’s DNA under false pretenses.
But retired Baltimore Circuit Judge David Ross disagreed, saying police had probable cause to obtain a DNA sample from Charles McGaney in an earlier murder case. Ross says police were then free to use that DNA in the Harris case. The ruling was a major victory for prosecutors, although McGaney’s lawyer still has another motion pending that questions the validity of DNA evidence.
McGaney, Gary Collins and Jerome Williams are accused of killing Harris during a robbery at a jazz club. Harris served on the council from 1999 to 2007.
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It’s amazing and disgusting at the same time to see the criminals have all the chips on their side after they commit a crime. What does the victim have? Well, in Baltimore, we have a city state’s attorney who refuses to prosecute unless she feels every t is crossed and i is dotted to her satisfaction.
False pretenses? Here’s a good case for the collection of DNA from everyone entering the justice system. You never know when you’ll need it.
How Patricia Jesamey has a job is beyond me. Her incompetence, ignorance of the law, ignorance of the law enforcement organization that she is suppose to be working in conjunction and her political pandering is legendary. If the intelligent citizens of Baltimore only knew.
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