To hear Rodney Price tell it, the shooting was the most terrible mistake. A decorated Baltimore City police officer for 14 years, Price said Thursday that when he killed his wife?s boyfriend, it was out of character for him.
He was always known for his self-control, he said, for the calm he kept under pressure.
Price lost that calm and his career in March 2001 when he shot Tristin Little 21 times, killing him. Price came to court Thursday afternoon asking Baltimore City Circuit Judge Clifton T. Gordy to reduce the 50-year sentence he got in 2002 after pleading guilty to the murder.
Price doesn?t live in the general population at prison for safety reasons, since he was a police officer, defense attorney Catherine Flynn said. That?s left him ineligible for mental health and even athletics programs, she said.
Price stepped down from the stand after speaking for several minutes about his remorse, and Gordy said he wouldn?t rule on the motion right away.
