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Defendant Pleads Guilty to First-Degree Murder
A 33-year-old Baltimore man took a plea offer May 16 of 35 years before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Daniels. Raymond Roman is charged with first-degree murder, use of a firearm during a violent crime, having a handgun on his person, and possession of a firearm with a felony conviction in connection to an incident on April 27, 2021. During court proceedings on Monday, Judge Daniels listened as the prosecutor presented a plea of life suspending all but 40 years with five years on supervised probation for first-degree murder and 20 years with the first five years without parole for use of a firearm during a violent crime, the charges are set to run concurrently. Roman’s defense attorney John Cox argued that his client has no prior handgun conviction. Read more »