Prosecutors drop murder case, add accessory charge against daughter in killing blamed on panhandler

Prosecutors have abandoned a murder case against an East Baltimore woman accused of stabbing her stepmother to death and blaming it on a panhandler, choosing instead to charge Valeria Smith with being an accessory, her defense attorney says.

 

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