Trial For Defendant’s Jail Fight Moved Up

By Caroline Myers [former] - October 21, 2021
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The trial for a homicide defendant’s alleged jail fight was moved up one month during reception court on Oct 21. 

Keith Davis Jr. is charged with attempted first-degree murder, first and second-degree assault, use of a deadly weapon with the intent to injure, having a concealed deadly weapon, and reckless endangerment after an alleged jail fight on June 2, 2020.

Prosecution waited almost one year to charge Davis in this incident after his conviction in a separate case, tried for the fourth time, was overturned, according to the Baltimore Sun. 

Davis has been incarcerated since 2015 after being shot three times in the face, neck, and back by Baltimore City Police when they suspected him as the perpetrator of an armed robbery. During the trial for this armed robbery, the jury found Davis guilty of possession of a firearm. 

The firearm allegedly found near Davis after he was shot by police was linked to a fatal shooting that had happened earlier that day, according to the prosecution.

A state’s witness had testified that there was no evidence found that the alleged murder weapon had actually been fired. 

Davis has been tried four times for the fatal shooting of security guard Kevin Jones, with two hung juries and two overturned convictions. A fifth trial is set for May 2022. 

During the pretrial conference for Davis on Thursday, the prosecution told Judge Melissa Phinn that due to human error, they had just given Davis’ defense attorney, Deborah Levi, the medical records from the incident the day before. The prosecutor said that she thought that the medical records were in the discovery packet previously given to Levi.

Levi is also researching whether the corrections facility has any disciplinary actions stemming from the incident.

The prosecution also told Judge Phinn that the current plea offer in this case is 50 years, suspending all but 30 years, and five years of probation for attempted first-degree murder. This would run concurrent to his pending matter, for which he has not yet been convicted.

The trial in this matter was moved up to Dec. 14 after previously being scheduled on Jan. 24, 2022.