Posted October 26, 2016 1:51 pm by Comments

By Jenn Jacques

Overcrowded-jails

The old adage “don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time” is lost on the city of Baltimore.

According to analysis by the Baltimore Sun, in cases against people caught in possession of a firearm illegally, sentences are either adjudicated or charges are dropped before defendants even go to trial.

In other words, criminals know they can do the crime without doing time.

Of the 100 illegal-gun cases, compiled with defendants arrested between November and March, the Sun found approximately one-quarter of the cases were dropped, a rate State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby calls ‘typical’.

Mosby said the average sentence for such gun crimes since she took office in January 2015 has been 16 months. This year, police say the number is lower — six months for those cases that have been adjudicated.

Prosecutors say people convicted of having a gun in a vehicle have received 6 percent of the total possible sentence they could receive. People convicted of carrying an illegal gun have received 15 percent of the available time, while felons convicted of possessing a firearm received 25 percent of the total possible sentence.

Prosecutors said even when an individual is convicted of illegal possession of a …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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