Judge won’t throw out charges against man accused of shooting 2 Baltimore County Police officers

Dylan Segelbaum

The Baltimore Banner

August 9, 2024

A Baltimore County Circuit judge also denied a request to prohibit employees of the Baltimore County Police Department from testifying against David Linthicum at trial

A Baltimore County judge has denied a request to throw out the indictment of a man who’s accused of shooting two police officers, ruling that there is not a sufficient basis to do so based on allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.

In a two-page order filed on Aug. 1, Circuit Judge Dennis M. Robinson Jr. also rejected a motion to prohibit employees of the Baltimore County Police Department from testifying against David Linthicum at trial.

Linthicum, 25, of Cockeysville, is charged with five counts of attempted first-degree murder and related offenses. He’s accused of shooting Officer Barry Jordan and Detective Jonathan Chih in 2023 and setting off a manhunt.

His attorneys, James Dills and Deborah Katz Levi, had accused the state of engaging in a “pattern of prosecutorial misconduct.”

They’ve since filed a motion again asking the judge to throw out the charges or remove the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office from the case, alleging that prosecutors have “replaced their role as ministers of justice with that of advocates for the alleged victims.”

Robinson has not yet ruled on their latest request.

Dills is the district public defender for Baltimore County. Levi is director of special litigation for the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore.

Linthicum is set to appear back in court on Aug. 29. He’s being held without bail in the Baltimore County Detention Center.