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Mar 12, 2008 6:47 am US/Eastern

Defense Seeks Dismissal In Bus Beating Case

Reporting
Suzanne Collins

A Baltimore judge is expected to rule Thursday on a motion by defense attorneys to dismiss the case against five Baltimore middle school students accused of the December beating of a woman and her boyfriend on a city transit bus.

Suzanne Collins reports the lawyer for one boy says there is no hard evidence against his client.

One of the last witnesses for the state, bus driver Danny Williams, witnessed the beating of Sarah Kreager by a group of middle school students in December.

The MTA driver says the one boy who actually kicked Kreager in the face, breaking her facial bones, was not even in court on trial. The lawyer for the boy accused of the assault says it just shows his client was wrongly identified.

"As Danny Williams said himself, the state's witness, he got a good look at the person kicking Ms. Kreager and that person's not in there. So I'm hoping the judge will do the right thing and dismiss the case against the boy I represent," said Donald Wright, the defendant's lawyer.

The final witness that took the stand Tuesday morning was a juvenile justice officer, who says three girls charged in the beating were joking around in the cell after they were arrested. They were throwing fake punches and kicking the air.

The defense lawyers have tried to show the way police determined the 9 students who were charged out of 42 on the bus was a flawed process.

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