On July 12, a 33-year-old homicide defendant rejected a plea offer in reception court before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland.
Darrell Sewell is charged with first-degree murder, firearm use in a felony violent crime, firearm possession with a felony conviction and having a handgun in a vehicle in connection to an incident on Jan. 23, 2023. Natalie Finegar stood in for Sewell’s defense attorney, Roya Hanna.
The prosecution’s plea offer to Sewell was life, suspending all but 50 years, with five years of supervised probation for a guilty plea to first-degree murder and firearm use in a felony violent crime. Finegar rejected that plea offer on Sewell’s behalf.
Sewell’s four-day trial is scheduled to begin on Oct. 15 before Judge Ronald A. Silkworth.
