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Post by Mike on Mar 28, 2012 17:37:36 GMT -4
I don't much buy into conspiracy theories, however, something doesn't sit right
"The statute of limitations for the filing of these charges is one year from the date the evidence was collected. Thus these charges had to be filed to meet the statute of limitations time requirements. At this time the Office of the State’s Attorney has no comment as to the details of the child pornography charges."
Does this mean quite possibly they might not have enough evidence to convict, possibly self defense? File charges the week before trail so he has to sit in jail longer until the 2nd trail if acquitted? Why did they wait a year if they collected it last year? Why not do it sooner?
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Post by Mike on Mar 30, 2012 22:19:36 GMT -4
Hmmm, charges have mysteriously disappeared. No longer listed in records search.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2012 6:37:29 GMT -4
The Capital
Former sheriff candidate facing new charges
By HEATHER RAWLYK, Staff Writer
Published 04/02/12
Awaiting trial for the 2011 murder of his neighbor, a former Baltimore City police officer and candidate for Queen Anne’s County sheriff faces new charges.
The Queen Anne’s County Office of the Sheriff announced that while searching the home of Charles Edward “Pete” Richter following the April 3 killing of his neighbor, Mark William Xander, deputies found evidence of child pornography. The statute of limitations for filing charges is one year from the date the evidence was collected.
Richter was charged last week with 14 counts of possession of child pornography to meet the time-limit requirements. The Queen Anne’s County Office of the State’s Attorney would not comment on the details of the new charges.
No trial date has been set.
The new allegations are separate from the murder charges pending against Richter, 67.
A three-day murder trial was scheduled today in Queen Anne’s Circuit Court in Centreville for that case, in which Richter is accused of gunning down Xander after the man’s dog ran onto Richter’s property. The trial was postponed this morning due to a medical emergency involving defense attorney M. Gordon Tayback. It was rescheduled for May 14.
Tayback, declined comment.
Richter called 911 shortly after 5 p.m. a year ago to report the shooting. Deputies and paramedics responded to find Xander, 55, lying on his lawn at 105 Emory Circle in Stevensville with Rottweiler, Lena, at his side. According to Queen Anne’s County law enforcement, Richter had shot Xander in the back with a single-shot .22-caliber derringer. Xander later died at a nearby emergency center.
There was a long-standing feud between the two neighbors about Xander’s dog wandering onto the Richter’s property. Richter had problems with Xander’s old dog too. Court records show legal actions and complaints by Richter over the dog, one of which resulted in a $30 fine for letting the dog wander. At one point, the Xanders complained that Richter sprayed their dog with a hose. A string of trespassing and peace orders followed.
It was during an altercation about Lena going onto Richter’s property, at 103 Emory Circle, that Xander was shot.
Richter was taken into custody without incident and later charged with first- and second-degree murder, manslaughter, first- and second-degree assault and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence.
If convicted, he faces the possibility of life in prison.
Deputies searched Richter’s residence following his arrest. Evidence was obtained that prompted the Queen Anne’s County State’s Attorney’s Office to issue the latest criminal charges alleging that Richter was in possession of child pornography.
He is being held without bond on the murder charges at the Queen Anne’s Detention Center in Centreville.
Richter’s attorneys have claimed their client acted in self defense.
Last fall, Tayback said Xander trespassed onto his client’s property before the shooting and entered Richter’s attached garage. Tayback wrote that Xander was holding “a garden shears or trimmer,” and the two men got into a physical confrontation. During the fight, Richter fired one shot with a lawfully registered derringer.
Xander, a married father of two grown sons, was struck once in the lower back. Queen Anne’s County State’s Attorney Lance Richardson said it “defies logic” that someone could argue self-defense in a case in which the victim was shot from behind. He said the location of the wound, the torso, showed that Richter wanted to kill his neighbor.
Richter was a police officer in Baltimore before moving to Queen Anne’s County about 15 years ago with his wife, Barbara. Since leaving the force, he has run several businesses, including a security company and a property management firm.
Richter ran for Queen Anne’s sheriff in the past two elections, garnering 4.52 percent of the vote in the 2006 Republican primary and 3.81 percent in the 2010 general election, according to The Capital archives.
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Post by AquaHolic on Apr 3, 2012 7:11:47 GMT -4
Hmmm, charges have mysteriously disappeared. No longer listed in records search. Oh wow...they are gone...I wonder why they were removed...interesting... |
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Post by Frank on Apr 5, 2012 9:13:16 GMT -4
Like I said.......This is not going to turn out like everyone thinks!
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Post by alice on Apr 6, 2012 14:13:58 GMT -4
Is this the one person on this forum that still believes that people are inocent until provin guilty. Sham on you frank.
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Post by Mike on Apr 6, 2012 19:25:39 GMT -4
Is this the one person on this forum that still believes that people are inocent until provin guilty. Sham on you frank. Shame on your for being narrow minded. |
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Post by funnel101 on Apr 7, 2012 14:11:28 GMT -4
Is this the one person on this forum that still believes that people are inocent until provin guilty. Sham on you frank. Shame on your for being narrow minded. And for putting a pillow on frank. |
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Post by Mike on Apr 7, 2012 14:52:33 GMT -4
Shame on your for being narrow minded. And for putting a pillow on frank. Oh Funnel! Love it. |
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Post by RobMoore on Apr 7, 2012 15:04:10 GMT -4
I'm not a fan of the way prosecutors throw 5 charges at a single offense and hope to get at least 1 conviction.
Pick the charge you think a reasonable group of people will convict him of, and charge him with that.
The scatter-gun approach just seems to violate the spirit of double-jeopardy to me.
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Post by jetskibrat on Apr 7, 2012 15:30:35 GMT -4
O M G I hope he does not walk free  |
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