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By
Kavya Vandavasi [former]
- April 22, 2024
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Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland set a trial date for 24-year-old Gerson Diaz-Orita after he rejected a plea deal from the prosecution.
Diaz-Orita is charged with first-degree murder, firearm use in a felony violent crime, and reckless endangerment for the murder of David Rodruiguez Ramirez in an incident on the 3300 block of Annapolis Road on Oct. 26, 2022.
Diaz-Orita was offered a plea deal of life suspending all but 45 years, with five years of supervised probation for first-degree murder. The plea also included 20 years, the first five years without possibility of parole, for the use of a handgun in commission of a crime of violence, and five years for reckless endangerment.
The handgun charge is slated to be served concurrent to the murder charge, while the reckless endangerment charge is slated to be served consecutively to the former two counts.
Judge Copeland set the trial date for June 27th in a hearing on April 22.
The trial is expected to last five days. Diaz-Orita is set to appear with his attorney Stephen P. Beatty in front of Judge Anthony Vittoria.