Criminal Justice

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Salary: $127,000 plus per year.

Benefits:

—Nearly 7 weeks in vacation and personal days.

—12 holidays.

—Unlimited sick time.

Maryland judges are hoping that Maryland legislators forget about them next month.  If they do, the judges will get nearly $40,000 in raises apiece.

The Guilford Robberies 

Leave it to Margaret T. Burns to once again victimize the victim of a crime. 

John Couplin robbed Christine Dolde at knifepoint in 2008, and Dolde, who had given a detailed description, identified his photo.  Burns called Dolde’s identification “minimal” evidence. 

No sooner do I write in Reflections on 2009  that some advocates have a hard time perceiving what other people are saying than Mary Joel Davis steps up to prove my point.

After I retired from the Baltimore prosecutor’s office I went to the Baltimore Sun with a proposal to write a series of articles on the criminal justice system and why it wasn’t working.

For our second hour, we talk with Alexandra "Sascha" Natapoff, Associate Professor of Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Marc talks with Prof.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Pat Jessamy has gotten very, very good at torturing her law enforcement partner, the police department. She can take an insult and make it sound like a compliment. And she continues to wield statistics like a hammer.

Tuesday’s Baltimore Sun opinion section featured one of its periodic
pieces that flows from Doug Colbert, a practicing defense attorney who
also teaches law at the University of Maryland.  Written by students in
his Access to Justice clinic, the “High Cost of Pretrial Jailing”
article sounded Colbert’s persistent theme:  people are locked up