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By
Andrew Michaels
- December 4, 2024
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A motion’s hearing to join the cases of Joseph Coates and Joseph Walker was rescheduled for mid-January 2025 to allow the former’s new defense counsel to review discovery in the murder of 26-year-old Marvin Jackson.
On Dec. 4, defense attorney Brandon Mead informed Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland that he entered his appearance in Coates’ case two days earlier and had not yet received discovery from the prosecution. A motion’s hearing was initially scheduled for Dec. 3 when Mead and Walker’s attorney, Staci Pipkin, were expected to argue with the prosecution to join the co-defendants’ cases.
A stand-in prosecutor and Mead, who represented both co-defendants during Wednesday’s proceeding, agreed with Judge Copeland’s decision to reschedule the motion’s hearing for Jan. 17, 2025 before Judge Yolanda A. Tanner.
Coates, 40, and Walker, 50, are both charged for Jackson’s murder on Dec. 15, 2023, when he was shot on the 1800 block of Aiken Street. The co-defendant’s are charged with two counts of first-degree murder, armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, firearm use in a felony or violent crime, conspiracy to commit firearm use in a felony or violent crime and firearm possession with a felony conviction.