ELKTON — A man who was videotaped shooting a man in the back on the street of an Elkton neighborhood in May 2024 received a five-year prison term after accepting a plea deal — one in which prosecutors dismissed an attempted first-degree murder charge that had been filed against him, according to Cecil County Circuit Court records.
Cecil County Circuit Court Administrative Judge Brenda A. Sexton imposed a 20-year sentence on the defendant — Michael Lee Davis Smith, 38, of Elkton — for conspiracy to commit first-degree assault and then suspended 15 years of the penalty during a courtroom hearing on Thursday, court records show.
Smith will serve his five-year term in a Maryland Department of Corrections prison. The judge gave Smith credit for approximately nine months that he served as a pre-trial inmate in the Cecil County Detention Center after his arrest in late June…