Knife painting

Knife painting
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When a man is alleged to have cut in front of him in line at a crab cake joint, Keith Anthony Rantin Jr. pulled a knife to start Knife painting. When a man came to his house to retrieve some commercial painting equipment, the Baltimore man pulled a gun.A Baltimore jury this week convicted Rantin, 33, on three misdemeanor charges in the shooting of Kelly Myers. In acquitting Rantin of the most serious charge against him - attempted murder the jury sided with Rantin's attorney, who argued that his client acted self-defense when he shot the acrylic painting contractor in the face and back with a shotgun. The verdict came 18 months after Rantin pleaded guilty in the 2006 stabbing of Jeffrey Rites at the G&M Restaurant and Lounge in Linthicum Heights.In the crab-cake and painting-equipment incidents, attorney Kenneth Ravenell argued that the victims were armed and provoked Rantin. Also in both cases, prosecutors argued that the victims did little if anything to warrant the attacks.

In the crab-cake case, video showed that after an exchange of insults and shoves, the unarmed victim turned away from the dispute. Rantin then approached from behind, took a knife from his pocket and stabbed Rites in the side, said oil painting technique, who prosecuted the stabbing case.In the second case, prosecutor Nicole Lomartire told a jury that all Myers did was show up at the house about 9 p.m. April 5, 2007, asking for his paint sprayer back. Myers and a team of painters had been working on Rantin's house in the 1400 block of W. Pratt St. and had left the paint gun there.

"This is not the wild, wild West," Lomartire said in closing arguments. "You can't go out and shoot somebody for knocking on your door. ... You especially don't go downstairs and get your shotgun and shoot it at an unarmed man."Dunty, of the Anne Arundel County state's attorney's office, said it is clear that Rantin has problems controlling his temper."It's pretty safe to say that anyone involved with stabbing someone from behind over a food order has anger-management issues," he said. But Baltimore prosecutors could not tell the jury about the dispute over cutting in line at G&M, or about the other assault convictions on Rantin's record. In almost all Figure painting, the state must prove each charge beyond a reasonable doubt on the facts of that case alone - rather than establish a pattern of violence.

And Ravenell was able to convince a jury that Myers or someone who was with him may have fired a Modern oil painting first. Ravenell argued that Myers did not arrive at Rantin's doorstep alone; he had two men with him. After Rantin told the men to come back later, he feared they would break into his home, where his children were playing computer games, the attorney said. Ravenell said Rantin went inside, retrieved the shotgun from the basement and came back.