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Originally posted by sdy:
an update to this sad story

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com...-death-plead-guilty/

Three other teens charged in the death of Baltimore County Officer Amy Caprio appeared in court Monday for a motions hearing, but plead guilty.

Darrell Ward, 15, Derrick Matthews, 16, and Eugene Genius, 17, were charged with burglary and first-degree murder after Caprio was run over by a 17-year-old Dawnta Harris driving a Jeep they were all riding in last May. The teens were all charged as adults.

A felony murder conviction requires a mandatory life sentence, but as a part of the plea deal the prosecutors ask the judge to cap the sentences at 30 years.

The driver, Dawnta Harris, was found guilty in Caprio’s death on May 1, 2019.

Harris is set to be sentenced this month.


Caprio had responded to a call about a burglary in progress when she confronted the teens inside a stolen Jeep. As she told them to get out of the car, they refused and instead drove toward the officer. She fired one shot, but was run down and died from her injuries.

As bad as this is, in my former state of residence (CA), it would be impossible to charge any of these other participants with a crime more serious than the original vehicle theft, since the "Felony Murder Rule" has been eliminated by the Leftist Democratic Legislator in a bill signed by the outgoing governor (Brown). Minors are ineligible for the death penalty nationwide (regardless of culpability) due to a United States Supreme Court ruling.

https://defensemaven.io/blueli...4jUT9x02hgSr_LglstQ/

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Eugene Genius

Ugh, not so much.

Clearly, the threat of arrest or jail means nothing to the savages inhabiting Bal’more

Scroll down to the vid of mayhem from a few days ago.

https://breaking911.com/baltim...strangers-at-random/

I am so sick of this shit. I know there are bad LEOs but a minute percentage. Every one I know personally (a fair number) is 100% stand up. 100%. A 9mm right into the thugs skulls seems like a perfect prescription. Make it public. Fuck those mother fucking fuckers. Sorry about the emotions coming out. God speed Amy Caprio. RIP.

Pinochet helicopter ride over rocky terrain.

I personally loved the "how dare she try to stop a kid from killing her".

I hope they all enjoy the rectal stretching they will get as the fresh meat on the cell block.

People always bitch about "soft" prisons, but really don't know what they are talking about. Convicts attempting escape ARE shot, and prisons ARE secured by armed guards. There are only exceptions for juvenile facilities and camps, and many juveniles are tried as adults and end up in "special" lockups where they are secured by the threat of deadly force. If you look it up, Alcatraz inmates rioted and took over the island so violently and resisted so much the island had to be shelled with artillery to regain control. Alcatraz was so strict the inmates were required to take very hot showers to lower their resistance to escape by swimming out in the cold water. There were catwalks inside the cell houses with guards carrying Thompsons. Once, when inmates began banging on the tables in the dining room in protest of the food, a Lieutenant fired a burst from a machine gun in the floor to stop the protest.

Violent people are going to be violent. Neither Obama nor soft prisons nor psychology is going to change that.

Going back to the original point. The skels were quickly arrested, charged with murder, amd were held without bail or on prohibitively high bail. Subsequently they were convicted or plead guilty on a not great plea bargain. The driver will very likely get life without. The others are going get life with, or decades.
Given the state of the death penalty in this country now, that's the best that can be expected.

Where the natives tend to get restless is where LEOs do something that is on it's face egregious, and get treated by DAs with kidd gloves. This case in not the flip side of that. If the perps in this case had been let out on low bail, etc., I bet there would have been an uproar.

This is a repost of something I posted in May 2018.

It is about the driver Dwanta Harris.

The original post is updated to clearly show the year of various events

Records obtained by The Sun show that Dwanta Harris stole a car in Baltimore in December 2017.

Records show the teen was charged with stealing a second car in January 2018 and a third in February 2018.

Harris was found guilty in March of stealing the first car. Charges in the second and third cases were dismissed.

3 stolen cars

The court sent him to an unsecure youth shelter in Montgomery County, records show. Prosecutors said in court Tuesday that he left the shelter, stole another car and was arrested.

4 stolen cars

In April 2018, Abed said, his staff recommended that a court order Harris held in a secure juvenile facility while he awaited sentencing for stealing a car. Juvenile services caseworkers warned that Harris was a risk to public safety, documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun show.

A Baltimore judge agreed on April 17, documents show, but a judge reversed the decision on May 10 and sent the teen to his apartment in West Baltimore’s Gilmor Homes public housing project with a monitoring bracelet. He was to remain on house arrest to await sentencing.

Freddie Gray was arrested in the public housing complex known as Gilmor Homes, one of Baltimore's worse illegal drug areas

The Sun could not identify the judge. A spokesman for the courts declined to comment. Juvenile records are sealed from the public. So it remains unclear what caused the courts to send the teen home.

Harris left his home after four days, records obtained by The Sun show. Abed said his staff tried to call him and went looking for him at home and school. The teen didn’t resurface until Monday.

5 stolen cars

Monday 21 May 2018 Dwanta Harris ran over Officer Caprio and killed her.

When Dwanta Harris' lawyer Warren Brown took the case, he said:

“He just got in the front and panicked,”

“If he hadn’t ducked, we’d have a police-involved shooting — it could’ve been him.”