An attorney for Gerald F. Griffith, the Woodlawn pastor charged with sexually abusing an underage parishioner in several Columbia hotels, filed a motion this week arguing the case should be tossed out because a Howard County prosecutor “violated a pretrial agreement.”
The case reached court last month, but Circuit Judge Diane Leasure declared a mistrial after the witness, whom Griffith allegedly abused on three occasions in 2004 and 2005, responded to defense attorney Joseph Murtha during cross-examination saying, “But that happened in Baltimore County!”
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