Lamont Davis, the Baltimore teenager convicted in April of shooting two minors, including a 5-year-old girl, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison plus 30 years.
Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Gale E. Rasin denied a request by Davis' attorney, Assistant Public Defender Linwood Hedgepeth, for a new trial, a motion based on incorrect information lawyers told the jury. Hedgepath vowed to appeal.
Davis, who turned 18 in April, faced a maximum term of life plus 61 years, according to the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office. The life plus 30-year term will run consecutively.
A jury found Davis guilty of attempted murder in the shooting of another teenaged boy, who was struck in the arm, and little Raven Wyatt, who was hit in the head. She's now 6 and relearning how to do everything, from walk to talk, because of the bullet left lodged in her brain.
Davis was under Department of Juvenile Services house arrest when the shots were fired nearly a year ago on a crowded Southwest Baltimore street. Records from his ankle-strap monitoring system, which uses global-positioning technology to track offenders, show Davis was home when someone shot Raven and the older boy.
Both the defense and prosecuting attorneys mistakenly told the jury that Davis had previously violated the provisions of his house arrest more than 100 times, suggesting he broke the rules at least 10 times per day.
The statement was a gross overestimation, and some outside attorneys said it could have led jurors to conclude that the records showing Davis was home — his alibi — were useless.
An analysis by The Baltimore Sun showed that Davis was beyond the boundaries of his house arrest, without an adequate explanation, eight times over a 10-day period, and each infraction was dutifully documented.