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By
Jamiya Austin
- March 14, 2025
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Antionette Harris appeared in mental health court March 12 in front of Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Alan C. Lazerow, who was filling in for Judge Gale E. Raisin. Harris is being represented by defense attorney Keryn A. Meriweather.
Harris, 23, is being charged with negligent vehicular manslaughter, negligent vehicular homicide while under the influence, driving with a suspended license, and several other theses are with in connection to an incident that occurred on Nov. 1, 2021, where she allegedly hit two pedestrians killing one victim and leaving the other in a persistent vegetative state.
According to Meriweather, Harris has been diagnosed with schizophrenia causing delusional thinking, a heightened fight-or-flight response, including paranoiac thoughts about her attorney.
Judge Lazerow ruled that she is a danger ordered her detention in patient care for further evaluation.
“I think I heard you say that I was supposed to be taking medication, prescribed medication that is not true, so thank you for making that comment,” Harris told the judge. “Antoinette Harris checking out.”
Judge Lazerow has scheduled Harris’s next hearing for April 16.