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A student chef from Sykesville was sentenced to a week in the county jail yesterday after he was found guilty of driving while intoxicated when he ran down an Eldersburg pedestrian last summer. Defense attorney Edward Ulsch and prosecutor David P. Daggett asked Circuit Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. to be lenient because defendant Walter Clarke Griffin, 19, made one good choice on a rainy night last July. He got help for John Larmore, the 38-year-old victim, who was severely injured when Griffin's vehicle struck the man as he walked along the curb on Liberty Road about 1 a.m. "To your credit, your going to get help in all likelihood saved a man's life," Beck told Griffin in a courtroom filled with South Carroll High School students, who were observing court proceedings.

A Mount Airy contractor was convicted yesterday in Carroll County Circuit Court in the beating death last year of a National Science Foundation psychologist. A jury deliberated about 2 1/2 hours before returning guilty verdicts for first-degree murder and felony theft against Randall Henry Gerlach. Gerlach was also charged with stealing more than $300,000 from the victim, Rodney R. Cocking, 59, of Taylorsville. Senior Assistant State's Attorney David P. Daggett said he will seek a sentence of life without parole for Gerlach, 57. Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. revoked Gerlach's bail -- which a judge reduced in August from $1 million to $150,000 -- and ordered a pre-sentencing investigation.

A Hampstead teen-ager serving 18 months at the county detention center under a plea arrangement designed to keep him out of the state prison system has been charged with assaulting three correctional officers since September.Douglas K. Baker, 17, is being charged as an adult, with bond set at $500,000.Court records show Baker went on a crime spree in February 1997 and was charged in 17 incidents involving 87 charges, mainly unauthorized use of motor vehicles, burglary, theft and auto theft.

A 48-year-old Westminster man was convicted and sentenced to a five-year prison term yesterday in Carroll County Circuit Court on a charge of child abuse in the death of his fiancee's 14-month-old daughter on Thanksgiving Day 2003. Anthony P. Flakes has been in jail since his arrest and will receive credit for time served. He was incarcerated first in Carroll County and later in Howard County because of reported death threats he had received. As part of a plea agreement, a statement of facts was read by Deputy State's Attorney David P. Daggett.

Warrantless search ends handgun case against teen The Carroll County state's attorney is not pursuing charges against an 18-year-old Hampstead man who had been accused of bringing a stolen handgun to North Carroll High School because the case relied on a warrantless search of the suspect's cell phone. Michael J. Judd, 18, of the 4300 block of Downhill Trail was arrested in late May on charges of possessing a deadly weapon on school property and possession of a firearm by someone younger than 21, according to court documents.

On May 6, 2004, CATHERINE E. (nee Mulaney); wife of the late Edward; beloved mother of Linda Davis, Margaret Masten and Charles Daggett; dear sister of Bernard Dietz. Also survived by eight grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and one step great-grandchild. Service, Thursday, May 13, at 1 P.M. in Galena Funeral Home of Stephen L. Schaech, 118 W. Cross Street, Galena, MD. Memorials to C. Henry Price Legion Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 0100, Betterton, MD 21610.leaves to mourn six children, Melvin, Ricky, Crystal, Lelia, George and Damon, one brother and two sisters, a host of grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends.

An Ellicott City man pleaded guilty in Carroll County Circuit Court yesterday to stealing $3,600 in travelers' checks he purchased with a counterfeit check made on his home computer.Anthony J. Greiner, 28, will be sentenced Aug. 21. Prosecutor David Daggett asked Judge Francis M. Arnold to order a presentence investigation to "find out what's happening [with the defendant]."This [scheme] was fairly complicated, well thought out, and [the reproduction of the check was] very realistic," Daggett said.

A 19-year-old Taneytown man could be sentenced to 10 years in prison for stabbing a man with a pocketknife in December, according to a plea agreement reached yesterday in Carroll County Circuit Court. William Paul Diebel of the 3900 block of Sells Mill Road entered an Alford plea, meaning he did not admit guilt, but agreed it was in his best interest to enter a guilty plea because the state had enough evidence to convict him of first-degree assault. In return, prosecutor David P. Daggett agreed to ask for no more than a 10-year prison term.

A Carroll County jury convicted a Westminster man of first-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder yesterday in a December 2005 double shooting that resulted in the county's only homicide in two years. Shawn Anthony Jones, 29, faces a possible sentence of life in prison without parole plus 88 years after being found guilty on 11 charges that included kidnapping, first- and second-degree assault and attempted armed robbery. David P. Daggett, deputy state's attorney for Carroll County, said he expects Jones will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The owners of a 112-acre Carroll County farm have been indicted on charges of animal cruelty, feeding garbage to swine and selling contaminated meat, David P. Daggett, the county's deputy state's attorney said yesterday. The 19-count indictment was returned by a county grand jury against Carroll Schisler Jr., 34, and his father, Carroll Schisler Sr., 60, of the 2500 block of Marston Road, Daggett said. The younger Schisler was arrested yesterday and then released on $10,000 unsecured bail after appearing before a District Court commissioner last night, authorities said.