Baltimore, MD – Baltimore’s Jewish community went to court Thursday to protest the possible retrial of a child killer who murdered an 11-year-old girl in 1969.
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The Baltimore Sun (http://bsun.md/1kPwBCt) reports Wayne Stephen Young – who was convicted of killing Esther Lebovitz – filed an appeal that says he wants his case to be put under reconsideration based on a 2012 Maryland court ruling that convictions before 1980 are not valid because of unconstitutional instructions given to jurors.
Assistant State’s Attorney Antonio Gioia recalled the details of the crime on Thursday. Lebovitz had stopped at the tropical fish store that was owned by 24-year-old Young after school on Sept. 12, 1969. After missing for two days, Lebovitz’s body was found in a ditch a half-mile from her house. She had been struck in the head 17 times and the state speculated she had also been sexually assaulted.
Young’s defense at the time was that he was temporarily insane. Gioia also reiterated transcripts from the trial where a police sergeant who had given Young his polygraph test testified that Young told him, “I did this. I killed that little girl.”
The prosecutor who tried the case in 1969, Howard L. Cardin, says Young deserves a new trial.
Baltimore Circuit Judge Edward R. K. Hargadon said he will rule on the appeal at a later date.
Esther’s family moved to Israel years ago and was not in court Thursday, but Gioia said the family knew about the hearing.
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This world is unreal !!!This is what happens when you have “Bleeding Heart Liberals” running the Gov’t !!!!
The murderer happens to be Jewish , not a goy. I remember I participated in the search party of course in vain. My wife bis 120 spoke to a lady who was part of the tahara and she could not describe the horrible scene what he did her. I hope that he rots to his death . Animals sometimes have human features which I remember from concentration camp and Young is in that category
A retrial would be unjust. The passage of time has made it impossible to retry this case. He needs to stay in jail.
Nice to see all the Yidden coming out to keep this monster locked up.
There’s some information missing from the article – why does the prosecutor think he deserves a retrial? Did he admit under duress? Was the jury told of the polygraph results (which is grounds for a mistrial)?
To all you outraged commenters: what if the man is actually innocent. Wouldn’t you want to see him freed? What comfort do you get from seeing the man jailed – if it’s the wrong man!? We don’t know if he’s guilty or not if he didn’t get a fair trial.
Wow!
#4 you are a real Jew and Torah hater!
If you don’t like an American freedom – why don’t you move back to Hungary, and experience again the anticemetizm, or Germany and see if they like now?
“sick society where bearded Jews molest little boys”,-?
and your friends clean shaven liberals molest only girls?
Even though you worked whole your life – I see the life didn’t teach you much.
Only a new trial can assure fairness to all sides. If he is guility under what are now deemed the appropriate trial procedures and jury instructions, he should be found guility. If not, he deserves to have the opportunity to live the remainder of his life as a free man.
#6 - a Md appeals case 2 years ago ruled that juries received improper jury instructions in murder cases prior to 1980 and Md unfortunately has been letting go those convicted of murder, who they feel are the least threats to society. County prosecutors have been talking about re-trying some cases.
I made comment # 1 ,& I see it has caused hurtful feelings .Please let me clarify what I meant .Here is a murder convicted of not only killing an 11 yr old child ,but also doing indescribable things …& he might be released from prison !!! Is this not a travesty ????
leave number 4 alone!!! you’re suppose to be frum people. just because we’re all basically anonymous here does not mean we don’t have to have derech eretz for an elederly person,kal vchomer a survivor. if you don’t like his comments,don’t read them.
Unfortunately, at the time of this case, in 1969, there was a temporary moratorium on the death penalty, until the U.S. Supreme Court decided the constitutionality of the issue. However, had the death penalty been imposed for this savage, he wouldn’t be around today, asking for a new trial.
Someone questioned on this website once which bais Yaakov you attended and I said judging from your posting regardless which school you display a fine attitude probabl;y thanks to your parents too. The postings which I read on this website directed at the teifene tzionym and the IDF to me not only were nasty, false but obscene. I stood twice on the so called “Selektion” in the Ghetto Lodz unfortunately there were IDF with Uzis but SS and
Einsatzgruppen and it is difficult even to talk about. When Jews dressed in the full regalia of “frumkeit” put on a kefiya , the battle dress of the PLO every things else is secondary. The curses and ill wishes which have been directed at other Jews, are sickning. It happens that I was on the search for Esther Lebovitz. I am elderly but oriented in all spheres however what is missing the basic principle of ahavas yisroel. You see in the gas chambers of Birkenau frum, not frum a Jew was gassed.