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ACCUSED MAN DEEMED COMPETENT FOR NOw
“Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against [Brad Scott] Compher…
The Bannock County prosecutors handling the case and Compher’s court-appointed attorneys, John Scott Andrew of Pocatello and Gary E. Proctor of Baltimore, Maryland, have argued for several months regarding the status of Compher’s competency.”
EX-LEADER OF CORRUPT POLICE UNIT GETS 15 YEARS
"A disgraced police sergeant who once led a rogue Baltimore police task force was sentenced Friday to 15 years in a federal lockup, becoming the first member of the brazenly corrupt unit to head to prison."
ACCLAIMED DEATH ROW LAWYER ON GRIM CASE
The execution of Tracey Housel “was witnessed by one of his lawyers - Gary Proctor, who was left seething with rage afterwards. Not by what Housel had done, but by the fact that he hadn't been spared by a system the former Queen's University law student spends his life railing against.
It was Housel - technically a British citizen - who brought Proctor to the United States in the first place.”
INMATE SPARED THE DEATH PENALTY
“An inmate convicted of killing a correctional officer in 2006 will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole, an Anne Arundel County jury decided yesterday.
Defense attorney Gary E. Proctor said after yesterday's hearing. "This was a jury who knew they had an independent duty to assess all evidence and decide what the appropriate sentence should be, and they went about it exactly that way."
CHARGES DROPPED
"Charges were dropped Tuesday against two Baltimore men accused of trying to kill a former gang member after the prosecutor deemed their cases "legally insufficient”…
Defense lawyer Gary Proctor had repeatedly decried the lack of evidence against his indigent client."
A Second Chance
"On the morning of Nov. 19, Marvin Williamson was 41 years into a life sentence for killing a man as a teenager in 1967.
By late afternoon, he was several hours into freedom.
His lawyer, Gary Proctor, took Williamson out to a bar to talk about the future after the hearing that Thursday, a week before Thanksgiving."