Baltimore Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon Sentences and Case Outcomes
Ravenell’s 45 years is a combined armed-carjacking and dangerous-weapon robbery outcome, not a separately allocated robbery term. Coates’s life plus 20 years covers felony murder, armed robbery and firearm offenses, also without individual-count allocation. The life component cannot be converted into a numerical endpoint or pooled with Ravenell’s total as a robbery-only range.
Evidence scope: Two named offense episodes are represented. Ravenell’s Stafford Road narrative includes taking the driver’s vehicle and robbing the passenger; those acts within the same prosecution do not add independent cases. Coates’s co-defendant Walker is part of the same Aiken Street prosecution, not an additional independent robbery cluster. Relevant available court or prosecutor passages were read September 28, 2026. Independent municipal-point and broader later-docket verification remain incomplete; reported sentencing or one affirmance is not exhausted appeals. This selected sample is not all Baltimore cases, an average, a typical sentence or a prediction.
Offense and jurisdiction
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Selected reported outcomes and limits
| Case | Baltimore offense connection | Reported sentence and count scope | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ikem Ravenell | 4800 block of Stafford Road, Baltimore | 45 years combined; first 10 parole-ineligible, reported December 6, 2024 Scope: armed carjacking and robbery with dangerous weapon; no separate robbery term supplied | Case source |
| Joseph Coates | 1800 block of Aiken Street, Baltimore | Life plus 20 years Scope: felony murder, armed robbery, firearm use, prohibited-person possession and related gun offenses; separate robbery term unspecified | Case source |
How to read the outcomes
A target-count allocation may describe one count, while an aggregate term may cover multiple counts, enhancements, or proceedings. Aggregate totals are not converted into an isolated sentence for Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon. No average or numerical citywide range is calculated.
An individual count, a concurrent term and an unallocated multi-offense total answer different questions. Do not infer unnamed convictions, a judge’s motives, a count allocation, an actual time served or a release date.
Related Baltimore guides
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