McLaughlin v. State

Appellant, John McLaughlin, was tried in the Criminal Court of Baltimore by a jury, Judge J. Gilbert Prendergast presiding, upon three separate indictments, charging him with riot, breaking and entering, and malicious destruction of property. The indictments came about as a result of the penitentiary riot that occurred on July 8, 1966. He was found guilty by the jury on the indictment charging him with malicious destruction of property and not guilty on each of the other two indictments. He was sentenced to the Maryland Penitentiary for the term of one year, to run consecutively with the term…