NEWS
November 8, 2009
On November 4, 2009, Leonore Smart Wetherill A memorial service will be held at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 1404 Carrollton Avenue, Ruxton, MD 21204 on Tuesday, November 10th at 4 P.M. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, 120 Wall Street, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10005.
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By Larry Carson | August 23, 2009
When Judge Richard S. Bernhardt ran for election to a 15-year term as a nonpartisan Circuit Court judge in Howard County a year after then-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. appointed him to the bench in 2005, he talked about his experience as a judge and attorney, not individual cases. But it's tough decisions like the one Bernhardt made recently to send 16-year-old Darnell Rasheen Furby back to juvenile court that gives voters a chance to consider the quality of their selection. Furby was one of three youths charged as adults with attacking and robbing a private security guard near the Long Reach Village Center May 13, though Furby is not suspected of firing a gun or of physically hitting the victim.
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August 23, 2009
Even in a city where so many of us have become inured to violent crime, the vicious beating of 76-year-old James A. Privott, allegedly by a self-described white supremacist, last week at Fort Armistead Park was particularly unsettling and repugnant. Not just because the victim, a state government retiree who was doing nothing more provocative than fishing - and who had no water or cigarettes to share with his assailants - was hospitalized with a fractured eye socket and two missing teeth, but because of the questions it raises.
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By Larry Carson | August 13, 2009
A 16-year-old Columbia youth and alleged gang affiliate accused as an adult in a May attack on a security guard near the Long Reach Village Center was ordered detained Wednesday as a public safety risk, but also had his case returned to juvenile court. Darnell Rasheen Furby had been free on $35,000 bail until Howard County Circuit Judge Richard S. Bernhardt decided the teen should be treated as a juvenile instead of facing adult charges of assault, theft, and use of a handgun in commission of a felony in the May 13 attack in the 8800 block Flowerstock Row. Furby lives in that same block.
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By Andrea F. Siegel | July 28, 2009
An Anne Arundel County judge has turned down a defense request to let the younger of two teen-agers charged with killing another Crofton teen live with an aunt in Delaware while awaiting trial in September. Judge Nancy Davis-Loomis said Monday that while she understood his family's wish to have him home, she agreed with prosecutors who argued that there was no reason to move the 14-year-old out of a juvenile facility where he has been since his arrest on a charge of manslaughter in the May 30 death of Christopher David Jones.
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By Andrea F. Siegel | June 30, 2009
Citing concerns for safety and the accused youth, an Anne Arundel County judge barred the public from the trial of the younger of two teenagers charged in the May 30 death of 14-year-old Christopher David Jones of Crofton. Judge Philip T. Caroom's ruling, issued Monday, allows the news media at the trial, but with a request that they voluntarily agree not to publish the names of the 14-year-old boy who is charged and names of witnesses who are juveniles. Caroom issued the order after learning of death threats against the 14-year-old while the boy was at one detention center.
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By Julie Scharper | February 4, 2009
A Glen Burnie teen was found responsible yesterday in the death of a 49-year-old man who died after being struck on the head with an aluminum baseball bat. Christian J. Schellenschlager Jr., 16, was found the juvenile court's equivalent of guilty of voluntary manslaughter. He avoided a similar finding on more serious charges, including second-degree murder, in the death of Brian Michael Myers in April. Prosecutors had attempted to have him tried as an adult. The teenager did not admit responsibility, but he agreed to a statement of facts read yesterday morning by prosecutors in the Anne Arundel County courtroom of Circuit Judge J. Michael Wachs.
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By Justin Fenton | January 30, 2009
Police said the victim of a fatal shooting in Northeast Baltimore on Wednesday night was a 17-year-old boy, the sixth juvenile killed this year. Dewayne Lawrence was sitting in the front passenger seat of a vehicle as it pulled out of the Cedonia Inn parking lot, in the 5900 block of Moravia Road, when a gunman began firing at the vehicle, police said. Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman, said "numerous rounds" struck the rear windows of the vehicle. Lawrence, of the 1600 block of Ramblewood Road, was hit at least once in the head.
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By Melissa Harris | August 31, 2008
Dwayne Price had been arrested 11 times and had run away from state custody at least once. Yet at the age of 18, the state's juvenile justice system gave him one final chance at rehabilitation, sending him to Pennsylvania's Camp Adams, a youth lockup north of Allentown. Less than three weeks later, Price escaped. Pennsylvania authorities quickly caught, charged and convicted him as an adult. But because he had been waiting in jail for 145 days, they paroled him three days after he was sentenced, putting him back on the streets - likely years before he would have been if he hadn't escaped.
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By Melissa Harris | April 3, 2008
When Jeffrey C. Butler ran away in November from an out-of-state treatment facility where he was serving a sentence for a carjacking in Baltimore, a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. The warrant languished for months. City police said they did not receive information about it until March 21, as part of a joint effort with the state to reduce a backlog of juvenile warrants. And by the time officers went looking for Butler on March 24, it was too late. He had been shot and killed the day before on a Southwest Baltimore street.