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Andrew Michaels
- February 20, 2023
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A 45-year-old Baltimore man charged with a non-fatal shooting was given a June trial date on Feb. 17 for a case that a prosecutor said would be dismissed if he were to plead guilty to a separate assault charge.
Following the successful appeal of Davon Gordon’s 2011 non-fatal shooting conviction, the defendant and a defense attorney standing in for Deborah Warner-Dennis listened to the prosecution’s plea offer of 25 years for first-degree assault and a concurrent 20 years, the first five years without parole, for firearm use in a felony violent crime in connection to the incident on May 16, 2010.
The defendant is facing these charges separately from other weapons charges, including discharging a handgun; however, both sets of charges stem from the same incident.
The set of charges that include firing a handgun would be dismissed should Gordon accept the aforementioned plea, the prosecutor told Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa Phinn. Gordon did not accept the offer at this time.
“I believe the offer may get better, but I have to get approval on that,” the prosecutor concluded.
Judge Phinn scheduled him for a three-day trial beginning June 9 before Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill.
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