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Friday, April 21, 2006

Gory Prince George's: Maryland Courts Free More Convicted Murderers

(Posted 21 Apr 2006)
  • Court Overturns 2002 Murder Conviction.
  • . . . Maryland's highest appellate court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a man found guilty by a Prince George's jury in the fatal shooting of a Suitland man in 2002.

    The state Court of Appeals threw out the conviction of Gemar Clemons, who was found guilty in Circuit Court of second-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a felony in the Jan. 8, 2002, killing of Kenya Bryant.

    Clemons was sentenced to 42 years in prison in February 2004. . . .
  • Court of Appeals Throws Out Convictions in Prince George's Murder.
  • The Maryland Court of Special Appeals has thrown out the convictions of a Prince George's man convicted of killing a couple at a Bladensburg animal hospital . . . Two juries have convicted Robert Angel Perez and Thomas Jefferson Gordon the Third of killing a veterinarian and his wife in 1999, but all four convictions have been overturned. . . .

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