Back in august and September of last year, I reported on a horrible attack on Emilia Miller, who had been visiting Baltimore from Jennings, La., and was accosted outside the Spotlighter's Theatre on a Sunday afternoon on St. Paul Street.

The 66-year-old woman was here to get a slipped disc repaired at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She and her family took an afternoon to see a play when a man approached Miller and took her pack which contained money, a camera and her medical records.

Her son-in-law Michael Brand chased him and a motorist helped to get police and arrest a suspect, identified as Dajuan Daugherty of Middle River. Brand got a feel for the topsy-turvy world of Baltimore justice when they learned that Daughterty, first charged as an adult by police, would be charged as a junvele by prosecutors. That's because he allegedly implied he had a knife but didn't really have one. A charge of armed robbery was reduced to robbery, meaning he could not be charged with an adult.

But that decision was quickly reversed when prosecutors discovered the suspect wasn't 16, as he had told police, but actually 19.

Yesterday, prosecutors said Daugherty accepted an offer and pleaded guilty to the robbery charge. He was sentenced to 10 years, all but three suspended, to attend a boot camp and serve five years on probation.

Brand sent me an email about his experience.

Well, the trial for Dajuan Daward (a.k.a. Daugherty) -- the mugger who attacked & robbed my mother-in-law in front of The Spotlighters Theatre -- was scheduled for yesterday (13 Jan.).  However, he decided to waive his right to a jury trial and plead guilty instead.  For the mugging, as well as his subsequent knife threats against me & another witness who were chasing him, he received a 10-year sentence:  the first three will be spent in prison (which will include a "bootcamp" designed to rehabilitate youthful offenders). ...  Unfortunately, the court did not make any provision for him to be required to eventually make financial restitution to Mrs. Miller for the $514.00 worth of cash & personal items that he and his partner (who escaped with her purse and was never apprehended) stole from her.

What follows is a statement Brand read in court yesterday before the suspect was sentenced: