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No revolving door for career criminal

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 08/03/08

A 47-year-old career criminal who testified to a panel of judges 18 months ago about the benefits of drug rehabilitation was sentenced Friday to 32 years in prison for two new robbery convictions.

Antonio Alonzo Baker
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Antonio Alonzo Baker, who won't be eligible for parole until he is at least 71, robbed a Glen Burnie drug store Aug. 30 and a Pasadena Hallmark store on Sept. 11 - just 13 months after he got out of prison more than a decade early on previous robbery convictions.

The sentences Baker received are among the harshest to be handed down in Anne Arundel County for robbery.

"I really messed up," Baker told the court...

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32 Years? - 2008-08-03 20:22:50

Mark my words. He'll be out in 7 years or less as he'll connive another liberal social worker to his 'Poor old me' way of thinking. The police lock them up, the court commissioners let them back out, the public defenders plea Armed Robbery down to simple theft and the judges shake their heads ruefully and give them a sentence of 3 squares and satellite TV. And we can't even execute murderers that rape little children. Maryland Justice is a joke.

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