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Police release name of slain MCI-Hagerstown inmate
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comMaryland State Police have released the name of an inmate who died after a correctional officer discovered him bleeding Tuesday night at Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown. Deavel M. Johnson, 22, was noticed standing near a bunk bed with blood...Tags: Laurel, Punishment, Maryland State Police, Murder, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Hagerstown woman sentenced to five years for maintaining a common nuisance
dona@herald-mail.comA Hagerstown woman was sentenced Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court to five years in state prison for allowing her home to be used to distribute illegal drugs. Sharday Marie Powell, 21, formerly of 916 Summit Ave., Apt. F1, pleaded guilty to...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Theft, Maryland State Police, Brooklyn (New York City), Crime, Law and Justice
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Grand jury indicts seven on gun and drug charges
Seven people were named in three indictments returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg last week, according to U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II. Christopher Wayne Williams, 39, of Mill Creek, W.Va., was named in a two-count...
Tags: Drug Trafficking, Heroin, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, OxyContin (drug)
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Mail Call - March 26
“Just for the information of your readers, the new pontiff, Francis, took the name after the patron saint of animals, St. Francis of Assisi.” — Hagerstown “This is to all the conservatives who keep making the argument that more...Tags: Breads, Barack Obama, The Pope, Executive Branch, Religious Leaders
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Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown: Racially biased death penalty must be abolished
Earlier this month, the Maryland Legislature passed legislation abolishing the death penalty. I believe the time has come to repeal the death penalty because it is racially biased, demonstrably unreliable and not an effective deterrent. This debate is...Tags: Lawyers, Death Penalty, Government, Executive Branch, Maryland General Assembly
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Area residents differ on decriminalizing marijuana
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comTeddy Williams of Hagerstown described the measure to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana in Maryland as a “pretty sensible idea.” “I think a lot of money is being wasted on policing people who really haven’t hurt anybody,...Tags: Arthritis, Crime, Law and Justice, Conservation, Ocean City, Medical Marijuana Therapy
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Art Callaham: Attorneys in 1963 trial owed debt of gratitude
I couldn’t help but write about Hattie Carroll and our own local “trial of the century.” As I’ve completed some research on this event, I have come to the conclusion that we here in Hagerstown, and in Washington County, should feel...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Trials
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W.Va. delegate fighting to reinstate death penalty
With neighboring Maryland about to become the sixth state in as many years to abolish the death penalty, one West Virginia delegate is on a quixotic quest to resume executions in his state for the first time in a half-century. This year marks the 27th...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, FBI, Death Penalty, Punishment, Criminals
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Death row inmate seeks conviction, sentence modification
waynesboro@herald-mail.comAttorneys’ actions leading up to and at trial in 1998 underwent hours of questioning Thursday as a death row inmate seeks modifications to his conviction and sentence. Albert E. Reid, 64, formerly of Biglerville, Pa., was found guilty in the Dec....Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Litigation, Witnesses, Judges
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Man files wrongful termination suit against W.Va. Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority
A former Eastern Regional Jail administrator claims in a lawsuit that he was fired two years ago because he blew the whistle on possible crimes by correctional officers. Lewis W. Barlow of Winchester, Va., filed a wrongful termination lawsuit Jan. 18...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest, Judges, Trials, Health Treatments
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Official: Stuck elevator did not hinder efforts to revive MCI inmate
janeth@herald-mail.comAn ambulance crew continued to give CPR to an inmate in the Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown last Thursday while they were stuck in an elevator at the prison for — at most — 5 to 7 minutes, the ambulance company chief said Tuesday....Tags: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Heart Attack, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Montgomery County (Maryland), Emergency Health Procedures
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U.S. District Court briefs
Two Martinsburg residents get prison on drug charges MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Two Martinsburg residents were sentenced last week by Judge Gina M. Groh in U.S. District Court in Martinsburg, according to U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II. Rebecca...Tags: Lawyers, Court Preliminary, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Punishment
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