OAKLAND, Md. (AP) - A former student at a western Maryland community college will serve no additional jail time for stabbing another female student about a dozen times during a fight in the school cafeteria.
Twenty-year-old Shamaine Moore of Baltimore was sentenced Wednesday in Oakland to three years’ probation plus the approximately six months she spent in jail after her arrest.
A Garrett County jury convicted Moore in March of second-degree assault in the January 2015 stabbing of 21-year-old Daniqua Harrington of Washington, D.C.
Both were students at Garrett College in McHenry.
Assistant Public Defender Michael Stankan says Moore acted in self-defense.
State’s Attorney Lisa Thayer Welch acknowledges that Harrington hit Moore first but says the jury concluded that Moore overreacted.
Another student was cut in the hand trying to intervene.
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