'Egregious' Conduct by Former Berks DA Sways Judge to Dismiss Murder Charges Against Death-Row Inmate

"[Mark] Baldwin's position as district attorney seems to have protected him from such censure," Berks County Court of Common Pleas Judge Eleni Dimitriou Geishauser said. "But in this matter, all men are created equal before the law and this court renders judgment of Mr. Baldwin's egregious behavior."

November 12, 2020 at 03:16 PM

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Suzette Parmley

An Eastern Pennsylvania judge—admonishing the "egregious" behavior of the former prosecutor in a two-decades-plus-old murder case—dismissed charges against the death-row inmate who spent more than half his life in prison for the 1996 slayings of two cousins.