Judge Sets E. Lombard Street Murder Defendant’s Trial Date

By Shayna Sefret [former] - August 9, 2023
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge scheduled a defendant’s homicide trial on Aug. 7 in reception court.

Keith Mario Luckey and his defense attorney, Lawrence Rosenberg, appeared before Judge Melissa M. Phinn to schedule Luckey’s murder trial.

Since there was no plea offer from the prosecutor assigned to the case, Judge Phinn scheduled the trial for Dec. 6 before Judge Melissa K. Copeland. It is expected to last five days.

This date is past Luckey’s Hick’s date, which was July 8. This date marks 180 days from the defendant’s or their attorney’s first appearance in court. Every defendant has the right to be tried within that 180 days of this first appearance. However, a judge can find probable cause, such as attorney availability, to set a trial past their Hick’s date.

Luckey, 40, is charged with second-degree murder, firearm use in a felony violent crime, the use of an assault weapon with a magazine and reckless endangerment in connection to a Nov. 7, 2022 incident.

According to a Baltimore Police Department news release, on the day of the incident, officers responded to the 4000 block of E. Lombard Street for reports of a shooting. When they arrived, they found 35-year-old Kevin Abel Torres Guerrero with an apparent gunshot wound to the body. 

Guerrero was transported to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.