Sunday, May 10, 2015

The Baltimore City Code carries the same requirement for a knife and carries the same penalties.

Baltimore City Code, Article 19, Section 59-22 — Switch-blade knives
(a) Possession or sale, etc., prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, carry, or possess any knife with an automatic spring or other device for opening and/or closing the blade, commonly known as a switch-blade knife.

(b) Penalties. Any person violating the provisions of this section, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $500 or be imprisoned for not more than 1 year, or both, in the discretion of the court.

Code of Maryland, Section 4-105 (click here)
(a) Prohibited. A person may not sell, barter, display, or offer to sell or barter:
(1) a knife or a penknife having a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring, or other device in the handle of the knife, commonly called a switchblade knife or a switchblade penknife; or
(2) a device that is designed to propel a knife from a metal sheath by means of a high-compression ejector spring, commonly called a shooting knife.

The Police Union is creating propaganda. There are several website pretending to know the facts when the knife has never been public knowledge. Is the Baltimore Sun the only media that actually does research before publishing?

"Good Faith" while claiming by defense attorneys, is not always granted by the court.

 Defenses: Qualified (Good-Faith) Immunity (click here)

The above information comes from the:

 AELE LAW LIBRARY OF CASE SUMMARIES:
Civil Liability
of Law Enforcement Agencies & Personnel


The Directors and Trustees (click here) are densely qualified with police enforcement and management experience.

You'll excuse the pun, but, the defense attorneys of the Baltimore police are shooting from the hip to attempt contamination of the jury pool. It is the "Zimmerman Defense."" The clown from Tulsa did the same thing. Sp, if people want to talk about ethical issues we can start there. Lawyers when found to have violated ethical issues such as contaminating the jury pool, can have their licenses to practice put in peril.

There is criticism of Ms. Mosby in that she is too naive and untested to carry out a legitimate prosecution. It has been stated this case charging Baltimore police with the death of Freddie Gray is atypical.

Ms. Mosby is well qualified. The Justice Department is involved in this case as well. If Ms. Mosby's ELECTED practice sets new precedent; then it is welcome and refreshing. 

A man died. He was alive when he came into police custody. Are there people actually stating that isn't important? So, according to dissenters the police are innocent. They do not bring to the discussion the fact Freddie Gray has been found innocent as well and he is dead. Their arguments are rather troubling in that a person, innocent or guilty, can be taken into police custody, lose their civil rights, robbed of due process and pronounced dead. Excuse me?