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2 THE BALTIMORE SUN NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2018 Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said he will push this General Assembly session for several law enforce- ment initiatives in Baltimore, including approving a private police force for Johns HopkinsUniversity. Miller also said he wants to help Mayor Catherine Pugh hire 500 officers for the Baltimore Police Department and create a second police training academy at Coppin StateUniversity. The Senate president, a Calvert County Democrat, said he believes state lawmakers need to help return a sense of pride to law enforcement inBaltimore. going to find a way to make law enforcement a priority in Baltimore City, so people are proud to be policemen and sowe reduce thenumber of capital crimes that are occurring saidTuesday in an interviewwithTheBaltimore Sun.

Baltimore is on pace for its fourth consecutive year with more than 300 homicides. Antonio Hayes, chairman of Senate delegation, said he be- lievesMiller is committed tohelping the city and Hayes said he strongly supports opening an additional police training acade- myatCoppin. Senate president has been very forthright that he wants to do something to help Hayes said. confident that he genuinely wants to do something to helpus Mayor Catherine Pugh said she met with Miller about her priorities for the city in the 2019 legislativesessionandgettingaidtohire and train officers is part of that list. She said Baltimore has too few officers patrolling its streets, and that the city needs the help to solve such issues.

Pugh often points out that during former Mayor Martin tenure, the Police the size of the force was reduced by about 500 positions during former Mayor Stephanie administration. like toseemoresupport in the legislature for alternative anti-violence programs, such as Safe enlists ex-offenders to intervene in disputes and prevent them fromescalating. not sure policing is the only answer for the problems we have here in the Hayes said. would be very supportive of alternatives to address crime In particular, Miller said he wanted to pass legislation during the session that begins Jan. 9 that would allow Johns Hopkinstocreate itsownpolicedepartment.

Such agencies are common at public uni- versities in Maryland, and at private uni- versities outside the state. Miller said the idea is a priority of billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg, a longtime and lavish supporter of theuniversity. now, very important to the former mayor of New York City, who donated $2 billion so students of all income levels can Miller said. need to feelsafe.Theparentsneedtomakesuretheir students are safe. Morgan University has their ownpolice force.

TheUniversity of Maryland has it. We need to allow Hopkins tohave their ownpolice Last lawmakersbacked off a proposal to approve a police force at Hopkins after a community backlash against theidea.Lawmakersfromthreedistricts that are home to schools and hospitals said they were inundated by concerns from constituents. Acknowledging missteps last year, Hop- kins officials said they are working with community leaders to build consensus for a force they see as necessary. State Del. Nick Mosby, a Baltimore Democrat, has been pushing for a police academy at Coppin for years.

Mosby said a academy inWestBaltimore that leverages current criminal justice school is awin-win push for police force at Johns Hopkins. He said like to see more effort put into funding education, recreationand re-entryprograms for people leaving incarceration. constantly taken this approach of, more police, more Mosby said. have this huge focus onmore police.Where is the focus on addressing the issues that are the real systemic drivers of From June through August the first three months after instituting a new online application the monthly average of submitted applications during the first months of 2018 climbed from 105 to 421, as 1,263 people applied. But the hike in submissionshas not resulted inmorehires.

luke.broadwater@baltsun.com twitter.com/lukebroadwater Miller pushes for more cops He also supports a second academy for Baltimore and a Hopkins police force By Luke Broadwater and HallieMiller The Baltimore Sun An Anne Arundel County man released from prison after serving 41 years of a life sentence formurderwasordered toserve the remainder of his sentence after repeatedly violating the terms of his parole, prosecutors said. prison after county Circuit Judge Laura S. Ripken reinstated his sentence of life in prison for a 1977 first-degree murder convic- tion. Hall was one of at least 130 people sentenced to life in prison who were eligible to seek a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down rulings in 2012 inUnger v.

The State of Maryland and State v. Waine, two cases that challenged the legality of jury instructionsusedbefore1981. In those cases, judges instructed juries to regard instructions from the bench as and binding on essentially giving juries the power to ignore the laworevenapresumptionof innocence. Hall was retried and pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in 2016. Ripken sen- tencedhim to life in prison but suspended all but 50 years and gave him five years of supervisedprobation.

Hallwent on to violate several termsof his probation. Hall pleaded guilty to a theft charge chargedhimwithdrugpossession inNovem- ber. He will serve the remainder of his life sentence, with zero credit for previous time served. Michael Lawler of Greenbelt, attor- ney, couldnot be reached for comment. Hall committed a heinous act of violence against an innocent young woman 42 years ago and received a just sentence of life in county Attorney Wes Adams said in a statement released by his office.

thebeneficiaryofanappellate decision that granted him a second chance. Since being released, he has proven on numerous occasions that he is either unwill- ing or unable to conduct himself as a law-abidingmemberof A jury convicted Hall in the murder of Barbara Ann Watts, who was found early in the morning on Oct. 31, 1976, on the Anne Arundel County side of the Patuxent River behind the Bowie Racetrack, according to court records. Watts had been struck on the head with a blunt object but died after Hall shother six times. A jury found Hall guilty in June 1977, and Circuit Judge Bruce C.

Williams sentenced him to life inprison. AfterhisreleaseundertheUngerandState decisions with theft in both July 2017 and September 2018, andpossessionofheroinandcocaineon Nov. 2. Hall told probation officers he was strug- gling with adjusting to life outside prison, tryingtomakeaneffortsincehehas been given the opportunity and a second chance to it wrote Tzaliyahu Yisrael, a field supervisor for the corrections department, inAugust 2017. with this agent andhasbeenhonest abouthis struggles.

When this agent asked Mr. Hall about why he stopped going to his therapist, and to substance abuse treatment. He indicated that he did not know, he had been working a lot andhe just Freed from prison, ordered to return Anne Arundel man must now finish life sentence after probation violations By Danielle Ohl Baltimore Sun Media Group The Maryland attorney office told a federal judge Wednesday that the Trump administration the Sen- ate-approved official Rod Rosenstein who was properly in line to become acting U.S. attorney general and illegally named MatthewWhitaker instead. not somebody who would be confirmed by the state Attorney General Brian Frosh said of Whitaker following a three-hour hearing in U.S.

DistrictCourt. An attorney for Frosh argued during the hearingforanorderblockingWhitakerfrom the post on grounds that his appointment violates the appointments clause. The argument came as Maryland sought to preserve its suit to sustain the Affordable Care Act the health care law recently found unconstitutional by a Texas judge. has argued that Maryland lacks standing to sue and that the case a transparent attempt to vindicate policy lawyersmadetworequestsduring Care Act once known as Obamacare is constitutional and an order that could have the effect of replacing Whitaker with Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general and former Maryland U.S. attorney who wasconfirmedby theSenate.

The two requests are connected, Mary- land attorneys argued, becauseWhitaker be making significant decisions about whether to enforce theAffordableCareAct. Whitaker is decision Thomas Goldstein told U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander. Goldstein is outside counsel hiredby the state for the case. The appointment of Whitaker, former chiefofstaff byTrump lastmonth, is being challenged in multiple court cases.

Asked by Hollander whether Whitaker would be involved in decisions about the status of the Affordable Care Act, Justice Department lawyer Hashim Mooppan de- clined to say. are not going to disclose Mr. participation in the pan said. sort of internal workings of the department we think appropriate Hollander took under advisement the Justice request to dismiss suit and and did not say when she would rule. twitter.com/sunjeffbarker Maryland AG seeks to preserve Affordable Care Act By Jeff Barker The Baltimore Sun Chocolate cake, marble brownies and lemoncreamcheesepastriesweregoinginto the oven at Saints Deli when a hail of gunshots rang out Tuesday afternoon like thunderon thecorneroutside.

one of the victims in the quintuple shooting hobbled across the street and ducked into the deli, which specializes in crab cakes, cheese steaks and corned beef sandwiches at the corner of Park Heights andShirleyavenues inNorthwestBaltimore, saidco-ownerManuelRinggold. waitedwith thevictimforanambulance. 63-year old man was shot in the arm; a 22-year-old man was shot multiple times in his body; a 49-year old man was shot in the stomach; and a 29-year-oldmanwas shot in thehip. All were expected to survive, and none of theirnameswerereleased. All five had been standing in the block when theywere shot about1p.m., according fewdetails and no motive or suspect description.

No up- dates were available Wednesday, police spokesmanJeremySilbertsaid.Anyonewith information isasked tocall1-866-7LOCKUP. Ringgold and his brother grew up in Northwest Baltimore and had worked at other restaurants but always dreamed of In2009, they bought the building at 3942 Park Heights which previously had been a laundro- mat, renovatedit intoadeliandopenedshop fiveyears later. While vacant homes litter the blocks surrounding the store, the corner said. Still, gunfire was enough to drive customers away. In between promo- tions of the fresh-baked desserts, the Instagram story reminded customers it was dayafternoon.

The Food City convenience store across Shirley Avenue, too, had only the occasional customer Wednesday, said owner Waqar Karim. have yesterday business; we have today Karim said. scared tocome On a wall outside, Tyree Colion, a Baltimorerapperandanti-violenceadvocate who was stabbed last summer, spray- painted Shoot the 129th he has designated in Baltimore and other cities since2015. Gerald Fox, 73, who lives on Towanda Avenue nearby, watched as Colion sprayed his blue-and-goldmural. He had caught the bus at the corner for an appointment about 9:30 a.m.

Tuesday, just hours before the shooting, and returned later in the day to hearabout iton thenews. As one of the older people in the neighborhood, Fox said, it fills him with despair to see younger ones turn to the streets and experience the gun violence thatawaits. twitter.com/cmcampbell6 Tyree Colion spray-paints Shoot on the southeast corner of Park Heights and Shirley avenues on Wednesday. On Tuesday afternoon five people were shot across the street. This is the 129th area Colion has marked to try to deter violence.

KIM SUN Shooting victim ducked into deli seeking safety Four others shot in incident outside Saints Deli in N.W. Baltimore By Colin Campbell The Baltimore Sun.