Henderson Sentencing Postponed -- Moore Asks To Be Sentenced as Minor

A couple of updates:

-- I learned today that Shawn Henderson's sentencing hearing -- originally scheduled for May 21 -- is being delayed at least a month or two because his attorneys want to have a psychological evaluation performed on him.

Also, Anthony Moore, the 16-year-old who was charged as an accomplice in Lindsay Harvey's murder and has since pled guilty to conspiracy to commit armed robbery, is now appealing to Judge Durke G. Thompson to be sentenced as a minor. This is despite the fact that Thompson ruled earlier that Moore could be tried as an adult and that Moore entered into the plea agreement as an adult. Moore was 15 years old on April 13, 2008, the night that Shawn Henderson killed Lindsay Harvey.

Something from today's Gazette that caught my eye: a Germantown, Md., woman convicted of arson three years ago just had 10 years taken off of her 15-year prison sentence for that crime, all thanks to a judge's reconsideration of her sentence. In the article, reporter Patricia Murret makes note of the controversial nature of sentence reconsiderations in Maryland.

You may remember that, in addition to the time off that Shawn Henderson received through diminution credits for the stabbings/robberies he committed back in 1999, he also had his sentence reduced by two years following a reconsideration hearing.