Summary
A Baltimore District Court judge charged with illegally using construction debris to repair his shoreline in Pasadena blames County Executive John R. Leopold for his legal woes.
Attorneys for Judge Askew W. Gatewood Jr. claim the county executive's public comments in November about the case amounted to "political pressure." They said Attorney General Doug Gansler is now singling out Judge Gatewood for "considerably more severe treatment that others who are alleged to have committed similar violations" because of his prominence in the community and maybe even because their client is an African American.See the full content of this document
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Judge: Politics Behind Prosecution
"The state's effort to prosecute (this case) is part of a political agenda," attorney John F. Dougherty wrote in a court document filed Feb. 27. "The disparate treatment is clear fr...
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