January 2, 2011 Comments Off on Dennis M. Sweeney: How many strikes are enough?
Last September, three men were tried together in Baltimore City Circuit Court for the murder of former Baltimore City Councilman Kenneth Harris. Given that the charges carried the possible sentence of life imprisonment and there were multiple defendants, Judge David ...
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Read More »December 30, 2010 Comments Off on The Daily Record’s top 20 stories of 2010
No. 1: The blizzards With bread, milk and toilet paper nearly cleared from local store shelves, flakes began to fall on the metro region the evening of Feb. 5. What followed was labeled historic and expensive with a Biblical twist ...
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Read More »October 19, 2010 Comments Off on 2 defendants get life for Councilman Harris slaying
A man and a teenager were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for the fatal shooting of a former Baltimore city councilman, whose widow characterized the defendants as exactly the sort of young men her husband tried to help during ...
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Read More »October 8, 2010 Comments Off on Guilty verdicts in Kenneth Harris murder trial
A Baltimore jury has found two young men guilty of murdering former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr., but acquitted a third defendant of the most serious charges. After three weeks of trial, it took the mostly black female jury ...
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Read More »September 30, 2010 Comments Off on Harris’ murder case heading to jury
DNA evidence took center stage Thursday during closing arguments in the trial of the three young men charged with murdering former Baltimore City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris, with the prosecution calling it “the crux of the case” and defense attorneys ...
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Read More »August 30, 2010 2 Comments
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 ...
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