UpdatedThu, Dec 17, 2020 at 7:41 pm ET
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Eraina Pretty was 18 when she pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, use of a handgun and accessory after the fact. She is now 61 years old. (Renee Schiavone/Patch)
After serving 42-years of a 60-year sentence, Maryland s longest-incarcerated woman prisoner, Eraina Pretty, is to be released from the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women.
The decision to free her came following a joint motion filed by University of Maryland attorneys Lila Meadows and Leigh Goodmark and the Baltimore City State s Attorney s Sentencing Review Unit, represented by Deputy State s Attorney Jan Bledsoe.
Subscribe We are grateful to [Baltimore City State s Attorney] Marilyn Mosby (D) and the Baltimore City State s Attorney s Office, who ultimately agreed that Ms. Pretty was worthy of the mercy the court exercised in her resentencing, Meadows and Goldmark said in a statement.