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By Richard Irwin and Richard Irwin,Sun reporter | February 26, 2008
An inmate accused in the fatal stabbing of a correctional officer in 2006 tried to escape yesterday evening while being examined at Mercy Medical Center, less than a mile from the Super Max prison where he was being held, a spokesman for the state's Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said. Rick Binetti, the spokesman, said Lamarr C. Harris, 37, was being examined for an undetermined illness or injury about 6 p.m. at Mercy Medical Center on North Calvert Street when Harris tried to flee by "taking a couple of steps" and was immediately restrained by four Super Max officers and at least two hospital security personnel.
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By Tyeesha Dixon and Tyeesha Dixon,Sun reporter | January 6, 2008
The Howard County Sheriff's Office will take extra security measures for the capital murder trial this week of Brandon T. Morris, who attempted to flee a Howard County courtroom in May during jury-selection proceedings. His trial is scheduled to begin tomorrow in Howard County Circuit Court. Morris, 22, of Baltimore is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of corrections officer Jeffery A. Wroten in January 2006 during an attempted escape from Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown, where Morris had been taken for treatment of self-inflicted wounds.
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By John-John Williams IV and John-John Williams IV,Sun reporter | June 2, 2007
The day after a man with a history of escape attempts tried to flee a courtroom as his murder trial was getting under way, a Howard County Circuit Court judge dismissed the entire jury pool and asked the lawyers whether he should recuse himself from the case. Brandon T. Morris, 21, tried to escape from Judge Dennis M. Sweeney's courtroom during jury selection Thursday. Two sheriff's deputies and two potential jurors received minor injuries during the ruckus, which resulted in Morris being wrestled to the floor by security officers.
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By LOS ANGELES TIMES | August 4, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- When troops from the 101st Airborne landed on an island in a dawn raid for insurgents, they encountered shoeless men, women, sheep, bags of raw wool, a pistol and a smattering of Kalashnikovs, according to testimony yesterday during a hearing for soldiers accused of murdering three Iraqis on May 9. "This surprised you, right?" prosecutor William Fischbach asked Spc. Micah Bivens on cross-examination. "You thought you were going to go in there guns blazing, and you came up with a dry hole."
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By Greg Garland and Greg Garland,SUN STAFF | August 11, 2005
The problems at Maryland's troubled prisons in Jessup continued yesterday as authorities thwarted an attempted escape by an inmate serving a life sentence for attempted murder. State prison officials said the inmate scaled an interior fence at the Maryland House of Correction Annex and was trying to get past razor wire and over another fence to the outside before he was ordered down by a correctional officer patrolling the prison perimeter. "He was not being combative, he was compliant," said Maj. Priscilla Doggett, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Division of Correction.
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By Lynn Anderson and Lynn Anderson,SUN STAFF | April 1, 2005
In his first public remarks since reports this week of abuse at state-run juvenile detention facilities, Maryland's Juvenile Services secretary said yesterday that his agency is making steady progress in reforming the troubled system. But at a news conference called to bring attention to improvements, Secretary Kenneth C. Montague Jr. also was forced to address yet another security lapse - a near escape Wednesday from the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School in which two youths armed with scissors locked two staff members in a room.