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June 15, 2011

Woman gets 23 years in prison for attacks at clubs

A 30-year-old woman was sentenced today in Baltimore Circuit Court to 23 years in prison for attacking three women during altercations at West Baltimore clubs. The attacks left the victims with severe injuries.

The sentence came after Tiffany Williams had pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree assault. Judge Lynn K. Stewart ruled that the defendant’s pleas meant she had violated the probation she was serving for an earlier narcotics conviction.

More details on the case from The Sun's Nick Madigan:

The office of State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein said that in November 2009 Williams assaulted two sisters outside the Roots Bar & Lounge, at Vine and Smallwood streets, after a verbal dispute that started at another location, Club International, on West Baltimore Street.

A statement from Bernstein’s office said Williams beat one of the women with a baseball bat and stabbed the other eight times, puncturing one of her lungs — an injury that required abdominal surgery. Both women recovered.

Less than two months later, early on New Year’s Day, Williams was at Club International again when she slashed the face of a woman with a knife, producing a gash of almost four inches. She too recovered.

Posted by Peter Hermann at 5:46 PM | | Comments (1)
Categories: Courts and the justice system, West Baltimore
        

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Hi I'm here to let people know about what happened with the fight that took place on November 23,2009 Tiffany an my friend was fighting she lost got mad told her friends we jumped her (we didn't) they came back we got to fighting again and she stabbed me in my bad I don't wish jail on nobody but if the shoes was on the other foot where would I be in jail too

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About Peter Hermann
Peter Hermann started covering news for The Baltimore Sun in 1990, first in Anne Arundel County and, starting in 1994, reporting on the Baltimore Police Department. In 2001, he was assigned to Jerusalem as the Baltimore Sun's Middle East correspondent. He returned in 2005 as an assistant city editor overseeing crime coverage. In 2008, Peter returned to the beat as a daily reporter and blogger. A recent BBC report featured him in a segment on the harsh realities of covering crime in Baltimore.

Coverage will focus on crime trends, problems in neighborhoods in the city and elsewhere, profiles of victims and police officers and try to offer readers a fresh perspective on one of the most vexing issues facing Baltimore and its future.



Contributing to this blog is Justin Fenton, who joined The Sun in 2005 and has covered the Baltimore City Police Department and the criminal justice system since 2008. His work includes an investigation into Cal Ripken Jr.’s minor league baseball stadium deal with his hometown of Aberdeen, a three-part series chronicling a ruthless con woman, coverage of the killing of five Amish children at a schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., and a job swap with a British crime reporter to explore differences in crime-fighting. A special report looking into how city police handle rape cases led to sweeping reforms that changed the way sexual assaults are investigated in Baltimore. He was recognized as the best reporter in Baltimore by the City Paper in 2010 and by Baltimore Magazine in 2011.
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