Almost as much as Nancy Pelosi, he was f%$%#ing the Democratic Party and inadvertently paved the way for Donald Trump.
Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the longest-serving Democrat in Congress and once a rival to become House speaker, will announce Thursday he is set to retire at the end of his term.
Hoyer, who served for years in party leadership and helped steer Democrats through some of their most significant legislative victories, is set to deliver a House floor speech about his decision, according to a person familiar with the situation and granted anonymity to discuss it.
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At 86, Hoyer is the latest in a generation of senior-most leaders stepping aside, making way for a new era of lawmakers eager to take on governing. Retirements have been high in the political parties, Democrats and Republicans, ahead of the midterm elections in November that will determine control of Congress.
I regret that I never had the opportunity to vote against him.
One of the more fun things to do on a Sunday in Baltimore is to go to the Baltmore Farmers' Market. It's typically open from mid April to the end opf November underneath the JFX (I-83) overpass right next to the (unfortunately closed) Hollywood Diner of the Barry Levinson film fame.
You can get lots of great produce, some street food, the fresh off the machine donuts are da bomb, and commission a writer to type up a poem or suchlike on an old manual typewriter.
There is a storm on the horizon though, with the market due to open April 13, and for a long time it appeared that there is no one to run it.
It’s a sign of hope — that after the business has made it through the lean winter months, it’ll start to make money again, said Dorian Brown,
who owns Neopol Smokery with his mom. There’s the chance to gain new
customers and catch up with old ones. And it’s just plain fun. “I think
it stands up against any farmers market” on the East Coast, he said.
But
this year, Brown and other vendors say they’re worried about the
market’s future. Others said they’re questioning whether the event,
which dates to 1977, is still a priority for city officials. “We’re
obviously concerned,” Brown said.
In January, representatives for Mayor Brandon Scott announced they were seeking a new operator for the market.
The news came three months after Scott canceled the city’s contract
with the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, which had
previously run the farmers market and other events. Though the request
for proposals closed Feb. 21, the city has yet to announce a successor.
There have been reports that BOPA will be brought back for a final year, and that the search will continue.
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In an email, [Baltimore Mayor Brandon] Scott spokesman Kamau Marshall said the city is still reviewing applications for proposals to operate the market. They received eight responses, of which five met the criteria for selection. BOPA will continue to manage the market until a replacement is found, and the group will assist with the transition to a new operator, Marshall said. Funding for this year’s Baltimore Farmers’ Market comes from BOPA’s existing contract with the city. Baltimore is currently negotiating a new contract with BOPA for the next fiscal year, which starts in July.
I'm not sure where this is going, but it appears that vendors have not been kept in the loop.
I do hope that it opens on schedule, it's the best place to get Romanesco (fractile) broccoli.
The ship, the MV Dali was, if you cannot tell by the prefix, a diesel powered
container ship, 300m long, and about 116,000 tons, so it was almost as long as
a Ford Class carrier, and had about 15% more mass.
From this video, it appears that there was some sort of power failure, and a
loss of steering, with the lights going off at least 3 times.
It is known that the ship sent out a Mayday before hitting the bridge.
That, and the voluminous smoke from the stack before impact, which implies
that they tried to reverse to slow down, seems to reinforce this.
BTW, there is a lot of kinetic energy in play here, it looks like it was doing
about 7 knots (3.6m/s) and at maximum weight, you are looking about 682 mJ of
energy. Given that TNT has a an energy contendt of 4.184 MJ/kg, this
means that the impact was likely equivalent to somewhere around 100-160 kg of
TNT applied directly to the bridge support.
That bridge was going down after that.
The bridge is toast, and at least 6 construction workers are missing and
presumed dead:
A massive container ship adrift at 9 mph issued a “mayday” early Tuesday as
it headed toward the iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge, losing power before
colliding with one of the vital support columns. As the 984-foot vessel
struck the bridge in the middle of an otherwise calm night, it caused a din
that woke people ashore and immediately toppled an essential mid-Atlantic
thoroughfare into the frigid waters.
The effects were immediate
and catastrophic: Authorities began searching for six construction workers
who had been repairing potholes on the Interstate 695 bridge at the time of
the collapse. By Tuesday evening, their employer said they were presumed
dead, and the Coast Guard said it was ending rescue efforts.
The
ship, a Singapore-flagged vessel named Dali with thousands of containers on
it, departed the Port of Baltimore around 1 a.m., then quickly ran into
trouble. It’s unknown what, precisely, caused the collision at 1:27 a.m.,
but the ship reported losing power just before it struck the bridge. The
National Transportation and Safety Board is investigating the accident —
which authorities said does not appear to be intentional nor an act of
terrorism — but had not boarded the vessel to collect evidence, such as
recorders, as of Tuesday afternoon.
It did not want to disturb
the more pressing matter: search efforts led by the U.S. Coast Guard. But
Tuesday night, Rear Adm. Shannon Gilreath said the rescue efforts would be
suspended.
“Based on the length of time that has gone on in the
search, the extensive search efforts that we’ve put into it, the water
temperature, at this point we do not believe we are going to find any of
these individuals still alive,” Gilreath said.
The water temperature in the bay at this time of year is around 47°F/8°C, so
the it's hihgly unlikely that anyone would have survived in that water for
more than an hour.
Two people — one who was briefly hospitalized and another who declined a
trip to a hospital — were rescued, authorities said.
Who the f%$# decides, after falling 180 feet into Baltimore Harbor, not to go to
the hospital?
Oh, yeah, the ambulance probably wasn't covered by their health
insurance. (F%$# private healthcare)
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As for the bridge itself, which opened in 1977 after five years of construction, Federal Highway Administration records indicate the bridge had been considered in “good” or “fair” condition going back at least three decades. A 2023 Maryland Transportation Authority inspection found the bridge to be in “overall satisfactory condition.”
[Maryland Governor Wes] Moore said the bridge was “fully up to code” and Benjamin W. Schafer, a Johns Hopkins professor of structural and civil engineering who reviewed video of the incident, said he didn’t see anything that immediately stood out as a “red flag” in regard to the bridge’s structural integrity. He called the collapse “more of an acute event.”
The bridge had two supports holding it up; if you take one away, “it’s not a bridge anymore,” he told The Sun.
The company that chartered the cargo ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was recently sanctioned by regulators for blocking its employees from directly reporting safety concerns to the U.S. Coast Guard — in violation of a seaman whistleblower protection law, according to regulatory filings reviewed by The Lever.
Eight months before a Maersk Line Limited-chartered cargo ship crashed into the Baltimore bridge, likely killing six people and injuring others, the Labor Department sanctioned the shipping conglomerate for retaliating against an employee who reported unsafe working conditions aboard a Maersk-operated boat. In its order, the department found that Maersk had “a policy that requires employees to first report their concerns to [Maersk]... prior to reporting it to the [Coast Guard] or other authorities.”
Federal regulators at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which operates under the Labor Department, called the policy “repugnant” and a “reprehensible and an egregious violation of the rights of employees,” which “chills them from contacting the [Coast Guard] or other authorities without contacting the company first.”
Maersk’s reporting policy was approved by company executives, federal regulators found in their investigation into the incident.
There is at this time, there are no indications that this contributed to whatever failures led to the accident, but I would not be at all surprised to find that Maersk's official (!) policy of retaliation contributed to whatever went wrong.
I’m sure that many of you are familiar with Alden Capital, but for those of you who are not, they are a hedge fund whose business model is to purchase a newspaper company that has dominant market penetration in a metropolitan area, and then fire everyone and make money from the gasses produced as the corpse rots.
In Baltimore, they purchased the venerable Baltimore Sun, (Founded in 1837) in 2021, and proceeded to gut the institution, leading to the formation of a non-profit to compete with it in 2022, The Baltimore Banner.
Needless to say, Alden did not like this, how dare they attempt to force a hedge fund to compete in the free market. That's communist!
So they have sold the paper, to David D. Smith.
Does that name ring a bell?
Well, he did get some press after being caught getting a blow job from a prostitute in 1996, in a company car no less, but what you probably know him from is, well, let's look at a portion from the notice that went out to Sun employees:
Here’s the note that just went out to Baltimore Sun employees. “This was not a Sinclair transaction.” pic.twitter.com/oYyTP8qyhb
They are taking great pains to tell their employees that it’s David D. Smith personally, and not Sinclair Broadcast Group, who is buying the paper, because Sinclair is to journalism what Ebola is to French kissing.
Still, I sense a great disturbance in the force, as if dozens of Baltimore Sun employees started updating their resumes.
Local businessman David Smith has purchased Baltimore’s oldest newspaper from Alden Global Capital, putting an institution that has been reporting on the state for more than a century back in the hands of local owners for the first time since 1986.
Smith, who is the executive chairman of Sinclair Inc., personally purchased The Baltimore Sun Media Group, which includes The Sun and its affiliated newspapers, including the Capital Gazette newspapers in Annapolis, the Carroll County Times, the Howard County Times and the Towson Times from Alden, a hedge fund known for draconian cost-cutting measures. Sinclair, based in Hunt Valley, owns more than 200 television stations, including Fox 45.
Oh, but it gets even better:
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Smith has given generously over the years to conservative and local causes through his David D. Smith Family Foundation. Tax forms obtained by the Banner show since 2015 he has given $581,000 to Young Americans for Liberty, $536,000 to Project Veritas, $150,000 to Turning Point USA, and $121,000 to Moms for Liberty.
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Smith told The Sun he will be joined in the newspaper venture by one partner, with an undisclosed share of ownership: Armstrong Williams, a well-known conservative political commentator who hosts a nationally syndicated television show on Sinclair network affiliates.
(emphasis mine)
So there are worse things for a newspaper than Alden, and David D. Smith is one of them.
My guess, completely unsupported by any facts, is that Smith probably overpaid, but it could be that Alden decided to do this as a fuck-you to Baltimore for supporting the Banner.
He's a cosplayer, and it's schtick, he does not take himself seriously at all.
Fishing offshore the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant changed Clark Rogers’ life forever.
After eating radioactive crabs spiced with Old Bay, Rogers suddenly could run sideways at supersonic speeds. Swim faster than Michael Phelps. His hands grew so strong he now had a “super pinch grip.”
He became a hero that, of course, Maryland would have: Captain Maryland — Champion of the Chesapeake, Protector of the Potomac, Defender of Deep Creek.
But before there was Captain Maryland, or even Clark Rogers — a nom de guerre that’s “a little Clark Kent, a little Steve Rogers” — there was just the man behind the costume: Clark Oliver, a Star Wars-obsessed Maryland native and cosplaying community fixture.
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Oliver says he can’t take too much credit for the costume design. He
just did what any other Marylander would do “instinctively.”
“Marylanders will slap that flag on anything,” Oliver said. “We love our flag, but we have no reverence for it at all.”
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The costume was supposed to be a one-time gag, but it was such a hitin D.C., he couldn’t resist wearing it to Baltimore Comic-Con.
A TikToker called ShimmerWali posted a video interviewing Oliver at the event. It received hundreds of thousands of views.
”Best superhero,” ShimmerWali said in the video. “That’s my state right there.”
Then country singer and Maryland native Jimmy Charles reached out, asking him to make an appearance in his music video
“It’s a Maryland Thing, You Wouldn’t Understand.” Before he knew it,
Oliver found himself singing alongside Natty Boh and Francis Scott Key
in a Maryland flag-covered Jeep.
She lied on forms to get Covid relief to buy a home in Florida.
Before that, then Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh was convicted of corruption charges related to selling her self-published children's book.
Before that, then Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon was convicted of corruption charges related to stealing over $3,000 in gift cards intended for poor families.
Do you see a thread here? I do.
It's all incredibly skeevy, and incredibly low rent.
This is some seriously low rent corruption.
I get that the state that gave us Spiro Agnew, Marvin Mandel, Ruthann Aron, and Stevenson Archer can't always swing for the fences, but lately this has been some pretty penny-ante corruption.
Step up your game. At least 6 figures, or, as in the case of Aron, hire a hitman.
Dixon, Pugh, and Mosby are an affront to Maryland's proud history of corruption.
We need the uniforms, plus crab traps, drawn butter, bread crumbs, and Old Bay seasoning.
Lots, and LOTS of old bay seasoning:
Italian fishing communities in the north of the country are fighting an invasion of predatory blue crabs which risks jeopardising the economy of whole regions, authorities have said.
The crab, originally from the coast of north and south America, has spread across several lagoon-like locations in Italy over the past year, preying on local shellfish and posing a threat to the country’s role as one of the world’s leading clam producers.
“We need people in Rome to understand that this disaster is putting at risk the lives of thousands of families and businesses,” said the governor of Emilia-Romagna, Stefano Bonaccini, after a summit on Monday.
“This invasion risks destroying an economy which not only provides a livelihood for a community, but which is an Italian and European excellence, together with other identity products of this region like Parma ham or Parmigiano.”
Fishing communities in the affected regions have been advised to capture as many blue crabs as they can in at attempt to control their population. In the Po River delta, however, such efforts have proven largely ineffective.
The crabs made their way to Italy in bilge water, and having no natural predators in the region, their population has exploded.
One of the natural predators of blue crabs is, of course, Marylanders.
In the last two years, Baltimore County developers received almost 1,000 exemptions from having to pay fees that would have gone toward building public infrastructure, generating far less money than the county expected to recoup.
In 2021, developers received 539 exemptions. The following year, they received 459 exemptions, for a total of 998 exemptions, according to data from the Baltimore County Planning Board.
The Baltimore County Council passed a law in 2019, first introduced by Councilman David Marks, imposing fees on new construction to offset the effects of development on public schools, sewers and roads, which has become more urgent as almost a third of Baltimore County public schools are at or over capacity.
But a series of carveouts rendered the impact fees law largely ineffective, as the county did not recoup any money in fiscal year 2023, and only netted about $14,000 in fiscal year 2022, far short of the $5.7 million Baltimore County expected to reap when the council passed the bill in spring 2019.
A law is proposed, and there is no politically supportable reason to propose it, so the developers proposed some tweaks, and these tweaks made the law worthless.
And you wonder why I hate real-estate developers. (OK, actually it was my dad's experience as a city planner dealing with those rat-f%$#s)
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Marks, a Perry Hall Republican, initially proposed the legislation known as the Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance in April 2019 that would have implemented a $3 per square foot fee on new construction, required developers to pay the cost before receiving a building permit, and required developers to start paying fees in July 2020.
“The bill that was passed was much different from the one I proposed,” Marks said.
The day in May 2019 when the County Council passed the bill, there “was a flurry of amendments authored by my colleagues” that “watered down the bill,” he said.
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The county netted no money from impact fees in either fiscal years 2021 or 2023, Palmisano said.
Lori Graf, chief executive of the Maryland Building Industry Association, said she was not surprised at how little Baltimore County had recouped. Her group opposed Marks’ draft legislation on the grounds that levying more fees on construction would make homeownership more costly, particularly for lower-earning residents.
“We have concerns about adding costs to people’s houses when there is little supply,” said Graf, referring to a dearth of residential building in the Baltimore area.
Real estate developers are so evil that a Republican is one of the good guys.
Baltimore's new Governor, Wes Moore, has revived the Red Line transit project, reversing two core policies of Larry Hogan, opposing mass transit and hating on Black people Baltimore City.
As in many cities, east-west transit is very weak, and the Red Line would significantly improve transit and traffic:
Gov. Wes Moore said Thursday that his administration was resurrecting the once-canceled Red Line transit project in Baltimore, breathing new life into what he and others described as a generational opportunity to bring extensive and overdue benefits to city residents.
“We’ll be working together to seize this moment in our nation’s history when the stars are aligned to invest in public transit,” Moore said at the West Baltimore MARC Station.
A couple of hundred gathered at the station, including a long list of local, state and federal officials who both expressed gratitude for the renewed plans and took frequent shots at former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan for abruptly canceling the original Red Line plans after he took office in 2015.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, wearing one of the red “Red Line” T-shirts that were handed out to guests along with other branded items like fans and cookies, referred to Hogan only as “he who shall not be named” while saying that the decision was a “deliberate and catastrophic disinvestment” in the city.
Hogan (I love the "He who shall not be named," bit.) ran against black people as a part of his politicval aspirations, he was just subtle enough that juxtaposed with the more mainstream Republican, he looked moderate in comparison.
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Moore, questioned by reporters after the event, declined to say whether he would prefer light rail, heavy rail — like a subway — or bus service.
As a result, the project’s total cost is too difficult to estimate at the moment, Moore said.
Still, officials expect it could take billions more than the original $2.9 billion Red Line proposal. When Hogan canceled it, the state already had spent $300 million during the initial planning process. He gave up $900 million in promised federal funds and redirected $736 million in state
money to road projects primarily in suburban, largely white areas.
Like I said, running against black folk.
Just because he hated Donald Trump, it does not make him a good person. (Applies to Liz Cheney as well)
It turns out that the traffic enforcement folks has a sad about this, because they are not generating the revenue that they expected.
Sorry, this is just a win. Speed limits should be about safety, not generating cahs:
It is possible Baltimore drivers do not have the lead feet the city once thought?
As the city approaches the one-year mark since the installation of speed cameras along an infamously dangerous section of Interstate 83, transportation officials are finding the number of citations issued has been significantly fewer than expected — leaving a substantial hole in the municipal budget.
As of May 30, 283,696 citations were issued from the two cameras that began enforcement July 13, according to data from the city’s Open Baltimore data website. That’s far short of the 656,000 officials projected they would issue in the first year of the program.
City budget officials don’t anticipate those numbers will improve much by the end of the fiscal year, either. A total of about 290,000 are now expected to be issued by July 1, based upon citation rates thus far, Budget Director Laura Larsen said.
That’s both good and bad news for Baltimore. The good news is drivers appear to be slowing down, which was the objective of the camera program when it was approved by state legislators and the city spending board.
The bad news, however, is the city is barely breaking even on the cost of operating the cameras. Almost no money will be generated to improve Interstate 83, which was a selling point for legislators who dedicated the funds to that purpose.
Barely breaking even? That's because the city is not operating the system. Some for-profit vendor is, and it is extremely lucrative for them, but not at all for the the City of Baltimore.
Privatizing law enforcement is always a bad idea, but even worse is turning law enforcement into tax collectors.
There is still a challenge in Federal Court, but the tax is back in place:
Maryland’s highest court issued an order Tuesday reversing a ruling by an Anne Arundel Circuit Court judge that struck down the state’s first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising.
The order by the Maryland Supreme Court, which did not have an accompanying opinion Tuesday evening, vacated Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Alison L. Asti’s decision striking down the law, holding the lower court lacked jurisdiction in striking down the tax.
Asti ruled that the tax on digital advertising violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibits discrimination against electronic commerce, as well as the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on state interference with interstate commerce. Her decision in October prompted former Comptroller Peter Franchot to call the tax “constitutionally questionable” and recommend against continuing to defend the law.
Franchot’s successor, Comptroller Brooke Lierman, struck a different tone after the latest ruling, saying in a statement that she was grateful for the state’s defense and that her office is “committed to fairly administering” the tax.
The Tuesday order, signed by Chief Justice Matthew J. Fader, does not make any ruling about whether the tax itself is constitutional, only striking Asti’s decision because the plaintiffs, Verizon Media and Comcast, “failed to exhaust their administrative remedies.”
Short version, they should have gone to tax court, not district court.
I don't see why, if goods and services from out of state now have to pay state sales tax if the company has a physical presence in the state, something that both Verizon and Comcast have, they have to pay the tax. That's been the law for a while now.
They intended to shoot up multiple transformers serving Baltimore City, with the intent of reducing the city to to a chaotic hellhole.
I'm offended. Reducing Baltimore hellhole is the job of the Mayor and City Council:
A Catonsville woman and a Florida man were federally charged with conspiracy to attack a Baltimore power grid, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland announced Monday.
Sarah Beth Clendaniel of Catonsville and Brandon Clint Russell of Orlando, Florida, plotted to shoot and destroy multiple electrical substations in the Baltimore region to further their extremist, violent, racial and ethnic beliefs, said U.S. Attorney Erek Barron at a news conference. Russell, 27, is the founder of a neo-Nazi group.
“Identifying and disrupting terrorist plots, both foreign and domestic, is one of the FBI’s top priorities,” said Thomas Sobocinski, an FBI special agent in charge of Baltimore’s task force.
Damaging an electrical substation could cause power outages that would affect hospitals, businesses and homes, he said.
Sobocinski said Russell and Clendaniel, 34, had been planning to attack Maryland substations since June. The two had a personal and online relationship.
Clendaniel plotted to secure a rifle to carry out the attack on five electrical substations, according to the criminal complaint. Russell shared maps of the energy facilities and discussed how to inflict maximum chaos on the local power grid by attacking several substations at once, Sobocinski said.
“The accused were not just talking but taking steps to fulfill their threats and further their extremist goals,” Sobocinski said. “Russell provided instructions and location information. He described attacking the power transformers as the ‘greatest thing somebody can do.’ In her own words, Clendaniel said she was ‘determined to do this.’ She added it would ‘lay this city to waste.’”
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In 2016, Clendaniel was sentenced to five years in prison for armed robbery for
wielding a large butcher knife at several Cecil County convenience
stores. She told the FBI informant in January she has a terminal kidney
illness and wanted to “accomplish something worthwhile” before she died.
Her plan was to shoot at the substation while the informant acted as a
getaway driver.
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Russell was sentenced in 2017 to five years in federal prison
for possessing numerous chemicals used to create explosives. He told
law enforcement officers that he started his own local violent extremist
group with Nazi beliefs called the “Atomwaffen.” His three roommates
were members of Atomwaffen until one murdered the other two in 2017 for
bullying him after he converted to Islam, according to the criminal
complaint.
Nick and Nora Charles they ain't.
You know, I am getting sick and tired of this sh%$.
First, in Maryland, we have our first Black Governor, Wes Moore, and Attorney General, Anthony Brown.
Moore will replace Republican Governor Larry "Governor Ratf%$#" Hogan, who had twice before defeated two Black Democratic opponents.
In the first case, he defeated Anthony Brown (the same one as above) who had the path to nomination cleared by the state Democratic Party establishment, and in the second case, he defeated Ben Jealous, who was attacked by the state Democratic Party establishment because he beat the party's preferred candidate.
This time, in part because his opponent Dan Cox was a whack job insurrectionist (he arranged buses for the January 6 insurrection), the state Democratic Party establishment did not go about kneecapping Governor elect Moore.
If the name sounds familiar, it is because his case went viral as a result of the Serial podcast.
They intend to retry him, which should prove interesting.
I've not paid much attention to this, but it is a Baltimore story, and a prominent one at that, so I feel the need to note this development:
Adnan Syed, the Baltimore man whose legal saga rocketed to international renown with the hit podcast “Serial,” could get a new trial after city prosecutors determined their predecessors withheld information about alternative suspects in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee.
The Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office moved Wednesday to vacate Syed’s conviction, according to legal papers filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The new motion said prosecutors on the case decades ago knew there was another suspect who threatened to kill Lee, Syed’s ex-girlfriend, and neglected to disclose the information to defense attorneys — committing what’s known as a Brady violation.
Lee was strangled to death and buried in a clandestine grave in Baltimore’s Leakin Park. Authorities at the time believed Syed struggled with Lee in a car before he killed and dragged her through the park. He has always maintained his innocence.
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Prosecutors asked a judge to set a hearing, to order a new trial and to release Syed on his own recognizance pending the ongoing investigation. A judge has not yet set a hearing for the motion to vacate Syed’s conviction, and it’s the court’s decision whether to undo a judgment.
The prosecution concealed evidence at the earlier trial.
I cannot speak to the particulars of the case, but the virality of this entire affair is weird, though not unprecedented. We saw this with Dr. Sam Shephard in the 1950s, so it predates the existince of any sort of computer network.
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