Adult trial for teen charged in Reynolds killing: a legal analysis

By Tom Hall,

Malarie Pinkard-Pierre, Teria Rogers, Rob Sivak

Published November 18, 2022 at 12:00 PM EST

A squeegee worker walks with his spray bottle and squeegee in the middle of stopped traffic as he works a corner in Baltimore, in this 2019 photo. A decades-old debate over Baltimore's mostly youthful squeegee workers is reaching a crescendo as the city grapples with issues of crime, poverty and racial inequities, and now, with a fatal confrontation between an enraged, bat-wielding motorist and the14-year-old squeegee worker who shot him dead. The boy has been charged with first degree murder, and will be tried in adult court. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Yesterday, a judge blocked the plea deal that had been reached between the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office and defense attorneys for the teenage squeegee worker charged in the murder of Timothy Reynolds on July 7th.

David Jaros is an associate professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. (UBalt photo) — David Jaros is a profesor of law and faculty director of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform at the University of Baltimore School of Law. (UBalt photo)

We begin the hour today with David Jaros, a law professor and the faculty director of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform, at the University of Baltimore School of Law.

Dave Jaros joins Tom here in Studio A…