Monday, April 1, 2013
The 42-year-old received 18 months for his role in the crash that caused Mary Ann Levant's death.
A Columbia man was sentenced at Howard County Circuit Court Friday to 18 months in jail for his involvement in a collision that resulted in the death of a Marriotts Ridge High School educator in 2012. Richie Junior Burgess, 42, of the 1200 block of Little Patuxent Parkway, pleaded guilty two months ago to manslaughter. Police said Burgess' blood tested positive for the prescription medication Xanax at the time of the crash. The accident, which happened on Feb. 21, 2012; on eastbound MD Route 32 at the Route 29 interchange, critically injured Mary Ann Levant, 64, a long-time staff member of the Howard County Public School System. According to court records, a traffic expert determined that Burgess' Ford Explorer struck Levant's car on the…
Monday, February 4, 2013
The man's blood tested positive for prescription medication at the time of the accident.
A Columbia man pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Howard County Circuit Court last week for his involvement in a fatal auto accident last February. Richie Junior Burgess, 42, of the 12000 block of Little Patuxent Parkway, pleaded guilty to criminal negligent manslaught by motor vehicle in an accident that resulted in the death of Mary Ann Levant, 64, a staff member at Marriotts Ridge High School, according to a state's attorney's office spokesperson. An analysis of blood drawn from Burgess on the night of the accident by Maryland State Police found he was driving under the influence of the prescription medication Alprazolam, also known as Xanax. According to the statement of the facts in the case, a traffic expert determined that Burgess' …
Friday, September 28, 2012
Anthony Patrick Parker was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in April.
A man who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in April for stabbing a friend to death in September 2011 was sentenced to five years in prison at Howard County Circuit Court on Friday morning. Anthony Patrick Parker, 54, surrendered to police the day after he stabbed Philip Edward Wise, 46, in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 5500 block of Harper's Farm Road in Harper's Choice. Parker, who is listed in court records as having addresses in Columbia and Gwynn Oak, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Wise's death after a trial in April. During the trial, it was reported Wise and Parker were part of a group of six people traveling in a van looking for scrap metal when they changed plans to head to a cookout in Wilde …
Moi
2:55 pm on Monday, April 1, 2013
18 months? That sentence is a crime. Absolute lack of justice for this woman and her family. Unreal. more ›