At long last, and following numerous delays, Shawn Marqueis Henderson is going to be issued his punishment for the shooting death of Lindsay Marie Harvey, with his sentencing to take place in Montgomery County Circuit Court on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 9 AM, in Courtroom 7, 8th Floor.
Although Henderson has been incarcerated since April 15, 2008, for Lindsay's murder, the sentencing hearing and subsequent ruling on his fate should bring some much-needed closure for the Harvey family and will be one more stop on the road to achieving justice for Lindsay. Henderson, as anyone who has followed this case knows, is facing life in prison and will hopefully get it.
Dan Morse of the Washington Post has informed me that the paper will be covering the sentencing, and I am assuming that the Gazette, which has given the most comphensive coverage of the Henderson case of all the D.C. area media, will be there as well. Earlier this week, I sent letters to all the local broadcast media asking that they cover the sentencing hearing, in the hopes that their coverage will shed more light on the issue of sentence reductions through diminution credits and judge's reconsiderations.
If nothing else, the media should find the time to highlight Henderson's criminal record and stoke public outage over the way his earlier case was handled -- making it known that it ultimately led to Lindsay's senseless death -- and lead people to view the system as too soft on violent offenders.
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