Malachi A. McFarland of Eastport Terrace, who was just 15 years old and a ninth-grader at Annapolis High School at the time of the shooting, was sentenced to 10 years in a state prison for the April 28 shooting of 21-year-old Jawan Keith Tasker.
In exchange for the plea, prosecutors dropped attempted first-degree murder charges that carried the possibility of life in prison.
The sentence was praised by the families of both the victim and the shooter.
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Correction - 2008-11-07 14:33:53
Not Mr. Tasker having an abnormality, McFarland. My apologies.
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A Study came out today... - 2008-11-07 14:32:09
That said folks such as Tasker have a brain abnormality, they take pleasure in hurting others. Perhaps after adult prison he will re-offend but what other choice is there? Keep him on the streets so he can continue to hurt folks immediately? He'll get credit for time served and serve a couple of years and be back on the streets in no time. It's actually a lighter sentence than a juvenile jail. But he will be a Felon and no gun possesion by law (As if that law actually does anything, he didn't care about the law of no juveniles having guns) instead of being record free after he turns 26. Good reporting by the way.
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