Anne Arundel County Judge Pamela L. North granted death row inmate...

Anne Arundel County Judge Pamela L. North granted death row inmate Lawrence Michael Borchardt Sr. a new sentencing hearing, ruling that an attorney who defended the convicted killer at a capital sentencing hearing in 2000 provided ineffective counsel.
Borchardt, 53, was convicted of fatally stabbing Joseph and Bernice Ohler at their home on Thanksgiving Day 1998. The couple had twice given money to Borchardt, a heroin addict who was going door to door claiming that his wife needed cancer treatments. He killed the couple when they told him they didn't have any more money to give.