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Kris Su
- March 18, 2024
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On March 15, a 64-year-old homicide defendant appeared in court before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Robert K. Taylor for sentencing in a brutal crime.
Bruce Poole was charged with first-degree murder, use of a deadly weapon with the intent to injure, altering physical evidence for criminal proceedings, and burying and disposing of a body.
Poole, represented by Judit Otvos, was convicted on June 27, 2023, for murdering his 53-year-old girlfriend Kelly Logan in September 2022.
The prosecution insisted the court proceed with the original plea agreement’s term of life, suspending all but 40 years, suggesting the cruelty of the defendant stabbing his partner multiple times. Later he was caught on surveillance camera footage handling six shopping bags in his apartment elevator, which the Baltimore Police Department believed contained Logan’s remains.
Otvos said it was the defendant’s family who turned him to the police, saying the killing “was out of his character.” Meanwhile, Poole had open heart surgery back in 2018 after which he showed signs of impaired cognitive ability.
Considering this is a first-degree murder case and the defendant has a previous conviction for assault back in 1996, the judge sentenced Poole to life suspending all but 30 years–all but a life sentence given his age.
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