Keith Davis was accused of murder. Now he’ll face a fourth trial to prove he didn’t do it.
Kelly Davis was in Baltimore Circuit Court on Monday, bracing for the worst. Her husband, Keith Davis Jr., was either going to be sentenced to prison for a homicide he had denied committing or granted a new trial. The future of her family hung in the balance. Prosecutors had alleged that Keith Davis, 26, was responsible for the 2015 shooting death of a security guard. He was convicted in October, and he was facing a sentence of 50 years in prison. But after the trial, Davis’s


Keith Davis Jr. granted a third trial in killing of Pimlico security guard
A Baltimore judge granted Keith Davis Jr. a new trial after fresh questions emerged about the prison witness whose testimony helped convict him in the killing of a Pimlico Race Course security guard. Circuit Court Judge Lynn Stewart Mays said jurors received a “sanitized version” of the criminal history of David Gutierrez, who testified that Davis had confessed the killing to him. Mays said she found “no misconduct” on the part of prosecutors, but said there was a significant