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Murder trial of city officer begins Wednesday
By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun 8:20 p.m. EDT, May 31, 2011 Two Baltimore police sergeants are prepared to testify that a colleague, Gahiji Tshamba, appeared to be “under the influence of alcohol” after he unloaded his service weapon into an unarmed Marine last year outside a Mount Vernon bar, prosecutors said in court… Read More »
Former Baltimore City Social Services Employee Sentenced for Felony Theft
BALTIMORE, MD ( May 24, 2011) – Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that former Baltimore City Department of Social Services employee Joyce Renay Flowers, 41, of Baltimore, was sentenced by Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Marcus Z. Shar to 25 years in jail with all but 5 years suspended after pleading guilty… Read More »
Former University of Maryland, Baltimore County Employee Sentenced for Felony Theft
BALTIMORE, MD ( May 25, 2011) – Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that former University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) employee Franco Nunoo-Quarcoo, 52, of Superior Township, Michigan, was sentenced today in Baltimore County Circuit Court on one count of felony theft. The Honorable Kathleen Cox sentenced Nunoo-Quarcoo to a two year… Read More »
Attorney for Baltimore County woman says 32 years too long to wait
The attorney for a woman accused of killing her child 32 years ago is trying to get the case dismissed, arguing that too much time has passed, prejudicing his client. When 5-year-old Edward Coffman died in 1972 in his family’s Baltimore County home, the medical examiner listed the cause of death as blunt-force trauma… Read More »
Baltimore City police officer could face punitive damages
Testimony ended early yesterday afternoon in the $35 million wrongful death/survivor action against a former Baltimore City police officer who shot a man 21 times, killing him outside his Northeast Baltimore home in March 2001. Baltimore City Circuit Judge Clifton J. Gordy denied defense motions for judgment on the issues of the survivorship action,… Read More »
Trial opens in civil suit over murder by police officer
Trial opened yesterday in the $35 million wrongful death/survivor action against a former Baltimore City police officer, filed by the family of the man he gunned down outside the victim’s Northeast Baltimore home in March 2001. Rodney Price, 36, a 13-year veteran of the city police department, was sentenced in April 2002 to life… Read More »
Shooting victim’s family agrees to reduced award
The mother and children of a man gunned down by a Baltimore City police officer will accept a revised award of slightly more than a quarter of the original $105 million a jury called for in their wrongful death lawsuit in January. Dominic R. Iamele, a lawyer for the victim’s son, Tristin D. Little… Read More »
Member of Arundel exec security detail testifies
An Anne Arundel County police officer who serves on County Executive John R. Leopold’s security detail testified Tuesday before a grand jury, the officer’s lawyer said, as the Maryland state prosecutor’s investigation into Leopold continues. Officer Mark Walker, a full-time member of the five-person detail, was subpoenaed to appear in the county courthouse on… Read More »
New Website for Iamele & Iamele Law Firm in Baltimore Maryland
Pronounced “Yamalay”, Iamele & Iamele was formed as a litigation firm with the intention of aiding injury victims, litigants and criminal defendants throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan area. Operating in the context of a small firm that emphasizes client service, both Domenic Iamele and Anton Iamele have been able to become personally involved in most… Read More »
