Another prisoner walks off through gap in court red tape

Oops. Another Baltimore-area prisoner was set loose because of a bookkeeping mistake.

Thomas Lee had his prison sentence cut in half because he kept his promise to earn his GED. But according to Circuit Judge John C. Themelis, a courtroom clerk’s handwritten note instead set Lee free last month. 

The city sheriff’s special operations team captured Lee three days later without a struggle. He had been serving a three-year sentence for assaulting a sheriff’s deputy. 

Another prisoner who’d been released by mistake was arrested in July in Baltimore County. Calvin Boswell walked away in April, a day after being convicted of attempted murder. His absence went unnoticed until June, when he was supposed to be sentenced.

— The Sun

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