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		<title>ELECTION: Amanda Bessicks Wins State&#8217;s Attorney Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2018 04:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amanda Bessicks, a first-time political candidate who promised to shake up the State’s Attorney’s office and make it more responsive to crime victims, won in a three-way contest in Tuesday’s Republican primary. There was no Democratic candidate in the race. Bessicks, 34, has been prosecuting cases involving crimes against children since January and was been a prosecutor for four years. She is a graduate of the University of Delaware and the Widener University Law School and served as a law clerk in the local Circuit Court before joining the State’s Attorney’s office. Despite being a newcomer to local politics, Bessicks drew strong support from victim advocates, especially the family of Terri Ann McCoy, who was brutally murdered in a Chesapeake City home invasion several years ago. She was also endorsed by the Republican Club of Cecil County. Other candidates in the race were Karl Fockler, deputy State’s Attorney since last year and a more than ten-year veteran of the office; and Kevin Urick, a prosecutor with over 12 years’ experience in Cecil County and previously a Baltimore City prosecutor for over 15 years. With all but two precincts reporting, Bessicks won 50.5 percent of the vote. Fockler drew support from31.9 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>State&#8217;s Attorney Candidates Raise Campaign $; A Backer Bashes Rival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 18:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The three candidates running for Cecil County State’s Attorney in the June Republican primary have drawn very different bases of financial support for their campaigns, with one candidate drawing most of her support from just three aligned donors, another tapping the traditional lawyer donations, and the third relying mostly on small donors and his own pocket. Between the time she created her campaign committee on 2/8/2018 and 4/10/2018, Amanda Bessicks, a 34-year-old assistant State&#8217;s Attorney in Cecil County and a political newcomer, received donations of $14,350, plus an “in-kind” donation of a billboard, valued at $1,000, from attorney John Downs. She received a $1,000 donation listed on state records as coming from “Edward D. Rollins,” which Bessicks clarified was from Edward D.E. “Ellis” Rollins, the former Cecil County State’s Attorney, who hired Bessicks to work in that office. Ellis Rollins resigned his post after his conviction on two counts stemming from an indecent exposure case involving his conduct at an Ocean City hotel. Since Rollins’ departure last year, the office has been run on an interim basis by Steve Trostle, who was named to the post by the judges of the Circuit Court. Trostle, who does not live in Cecil [&#8230;]]]></description>
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