The sentence is more than seven years shorter than what prosecutors had sought while arguing that Michael Barksdale, 49, of Edgewater, already had violated the conditions of his probation once and didn't deserve any more chances.
"He is very much a threat to society," Assistant State's Attorney Anastasia Prigge said in county Circuit Court in Annapolis before asking a judge to order Barksdale to serve the final 91/2 years of a...
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Career Criminal Sentenced to 18 Mon - 2009-10-25 07:09:20
I have appeared before Judge Silkworth many times and find him to be a thoughtful and fair judge. The sad fact is that our discussion about justice has been framed such that "justice" equals "lots of incarceration." We conveniently forget that WE the taxpayers pay for incarceration which doesn't make things better, it makes them WORSE. Our prison population exploded when we began incarcerating addicts and now the mentally ill. There are no throw away people and our country can do much better than warehousing our citizens.
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Career criminal sentenced to 18 mon - 2009-10-23 22:05:09
It's because of judges like Silkworth and lawyers like public defender Stacy McCormack that we have the crime problem that we read about daily.
Why is it that if I do something that causes injury to others, I am held accountable. But if a judge (like Silkworth) or a lawyer (like McCormack) made the kind of decision that we see in this case, and someone gets injured or killed, then it's "So what?". I think that they should be held accountable like everyone else.
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career criminal - 2009-10-23 18:00:21
Guess they're waiting for him to kill someone.
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Are you kidding me - 2009-10-23 17:08:20
Boy I sure hope thast if I ever get arrested I'm given half the chances the carrer criminals seem to get in AA County
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