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Opinion
Our Say:Inmates can't have a legal right to arm themselvesPublished 11/05/06
Several weeks ago a memorably strange ruling came down from our Circuit Court bench. In a death penalty case involving the fatal stabbing of one prison inmate by another, Judge Pamela North instructed the jury that a person may arm himself "in reasonable anticipation of an attack."
After hearing that, the jury acquitted Robert McFarlin of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of Damon Bowie, who was stabbed five times on the sidelines of a basketball game at the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup.
McFarlin claimed he armed himself with a knife because he believed there was a "hit" out on him. The jury convicted him of the lesser...
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