On September 8, 2014 in the Circuit Court of Wicomico County my son was in court regarding a verbal assault and an alleged slap against his landlord from Fruitland Maryland.
This lady has been known to lie before. My son was even warned about her false stories they had offered him an alford plea but he refused to accept because he did not hit her. Verbal assault, yes, that he was guilty of doing.
He refused to accept the alford plea because he would be admitting to a charge he did not do. Along with this plea he would have only been given 5 years.
The officer and I were asked to leave the court room. I can not say what happened after that in there. We were called back in for the
sentencing. My son apologized for verbal assault and for wasting the
courts time for having asked for a jury trail. They then sentenced him to 10 years with three years suspended. We were all devastated.
Even the officer couldn't believe it.
His public defender met in the chambers before hand and she said the states attorney and the head of the states attorney office, Matt Maciarello was in the judges chamber before hand and was pushing for 10 years from the get go. Since when did Matt start showing up in court for cases he's not handling.
Previously this same lady lost a case saying that her previous aid had
raped her. I have told you all I know. But 7 years is way to much for this crime.
The Judge was Jimmy Sarbanes.