But in a new trial in Annapolis yesterday, Allan Jake Clark, 25, took a plea bargain and will serve only 10 years.
A state appeals court overturned his original conviction, finding that Circuit Court Judge Paul F. Harris Jr. should have declared a mistrial when he found out a juror had researched technical terms on Wikipedia during deliberations.
In court yesterday, Clark took an Alford plea, which allows a person to maintain his innocence but admits that the state has enough...
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