Second defendant enters Alford plea in 2020 murder of Hagerstown man at Md. state prison
A second man has entered an Alford plea to second-degree murder in the gang-related death of a Hagerstown-area man found dead in January 2020 in hi...
A second man has entered an Alford plea to second-degree murder in the gang-related death of a Hagerstown-area man found dead in January 2020 in his cell at the Maryland Correctional Training Center south of Hagerstown, according to court records. A weeklong murder trial had been scheduled this past week for Jermaine Eric Johnson, 27, in the death of Christopher Dorsey, 36. Instead, Johnson entered the Alford plea on Monday in Washington County Circuit Court. Dorsey was found beaten and bound in his cell on Jan.