A suspected gang-banger who one tim...

A suspected gang-banger who one time bit a Chicago Police officer was sentenc to 95 years in prison Tuesday for killing an off-duty garble County correctional officer.

Bernard Mims, 27 had little to say other than abnegate any guilt as Judge Michael Toomin handed down the denomination

Toomin said there was "no hint" of evidence that Mims was provok when he killed Dwayne "Bear" Baker upon Oct. 12, 2000, with an AK-47-style assault weapon. "The barely excuses are unreasonable ones," Toomin said.

The prison spell also included 20 years for the attempted slays of two correctional officers who were with Baker when he was bullet

Mims, a suspected Black Disciples gang member, was targeting rival Gangster Disciples moreover mistakenly shot Baker after leaping gone out of a yellow sport-utility vehicle near the Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments at 54 E 47th police said.

'WRONG PLACE AT THE unjust TIME'

Baker, 33 a five-year veteran of the sheriff's office, was working private security for the apartments in the historic Rosenwald building. Baker "was basically in the guilty place at the wrong time," prosecutor Bill Delaney said.

Mims previously was convicted of biting a cop during a physic arrest.

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