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By
Andrew Michaels
- January 24, 2023
Court
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Homicides
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Non-Fatal Shooting
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Shooting
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Victims
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Homicide defendant Eric Jackson was found not guilty of the murder of 17-year-old Ray Glasgow, who was gunned down in a car nearly five years ago.
After three days of deliberations, a jury found the 37-year-old Baltimore resident not guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to first-degree murder on Jan. 23. However, a mistrial was declared for the charge of firearm use in a felony violent crime, for which Jackson will be tried at a later date.
Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Schiffer presided over the trial.
During the prosecution’s closing arguments on Jan. 20, she said that Glasgow was with his friends, sitting in a black Honda Accord on the 100 block of South Broadway Street just after 6 p.m. when the defendant and his co-defendants, 29-year-old Bradley Mitchell and 25-year-old Shawn Little, approached the car. The co-defendants allegedly believed the occupants to be those responsible for robbing Jackson weeks before.
Mitchell was found not guilty earlier this month, while Little accepted a plea in September 2022.
“Little did [Glasgow] know when he woke up that morning that his life was going to be snatched away by this horrific act,” the prosecutor told the jury. “When you go to commit a crime, even if you’re not the shooter—like Eric Jackson—you’re as guilty as the shooter.”
Defense attorney Lawrence Rosenberg countered that everyone wants somebody to pay for this crime but questioned whether the jury could rely on Little’s testimony. Little had initially testified that he told Baltimore Police that Jackson was the shooter, for example, contradicting an earlier statement to police that the defendant did not commit the crime.
“Nobody thought this was going to happen,” Rosenberg said. “What evidence is there that Eric Jackson knew that this person was going to shoot and kill Mr. Glasgow?”
Jackson is scheduled to appear in reception court on Aug. 17 as the prosecution pursues the charge of firearm use in a felony violent crime.