The Latest: Baltimore Officer Acquitted in Custody Death

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CNS News:

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on the fourth trial of an officer charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, a young black man who died after he was critically injured in the back of a police van.

 

A judge has acquitted a Baltimore police officer on all charges in the death of Freddie Gray, a black who died after he was injured in a police transport van.

 

Lt. Brian Rice was acquitted Monday after a bench trial by Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams. Rice is the fourth of the six officers charged to go on trial in the 2015 death. Three earlier trials resulted in two acquittals and a mistrial.

[Valin]

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[Geee]

So - are they going to start taking pot shots at officers there? Is Minnesota next?? Should we start acting like the wild west anytime there is an outcome we don't believe in? I know you pointed out that one of the LA. officers was Black - was this judge Black also??

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[SrWoodchuck]

Interesting watching the cackling jackals on the edge of reality. Makes me glad that I don't live in Baltimore. Life is hard enough to keep sane, without living in these zones of Progressive insanity...where everything must be funneled through a ridiculous cone of hopey-change & wishes for better living through socialism & racial "parity." reparation. Anything goes and frequently does.

[Valin]

Marilyn Mosby under scrutiny over further Freddie Gray trials
Jazz Shaw
July 19, 2016

Yesterday we talked about the latest failure in the attempts by Maryland State’s Attorney for Baltimore Marilyn Mosby and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to prosecute the police officers involved in the Freddie Gray case. Having gone zero for four in these efforts, questions were immediately raised about whether or not they should move forward with the remaining trials of officers who were even less directly involved with the suspect. By this morning, the calls were coming from both local and national media to put this suffering campaign out of its misery.

Dan Rodricks of the Baltimore Sun penned an eloquent column on the subject in the wake of the verdict, calling on Mosby to simply move on. And it’s also a reminder that this entire effort seems to have been predicated upon something other than the pursuit of justice.

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So has this swayed Mosby’s decision? The indications thus far are that it has not. Unless there is some shocking announcement pending from her office, the State’s Attorney seems poised to continue ramming her head against the same wall. (AT&T Live News)

 

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Two More Prosecutors Face Disbarment Complaints Over Freddie Gray Case

by Chris White | 11:16 am, July 19th, 2016

A law professor at George Washington University School of Law has filed two additional disciplinary complaints against Baltimore Deputy State’s Attorneys Michael Schatzow and Janice Bledsoe. Schatzow and Bledsoe are the two courtroom prosecutors involved in the trials against the six Baltimore police officers charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray. Professor John Banzhaf filed the complaints on Tuesday with the Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland. Last month, Banzhaf also filed a disciplinary complaint against Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby that seeks to have her disbarred for alleged unethical conduct in the prosecution of the “Baltimore Six.”

 

The two new complaints allege that Schatzow and Bledsoe violated multiple provisions of the Maryland Lawyer’s Rules of Professional Conduct, including a failure to turn over exculpatory evidence and the failure to refrain from prosecuting charges not supported by probable cause. Prof. Banzhaf’s complaints heavily rely in the findings of trial Judge Barry Williams

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/two-more-prosecutors-face-disbarment-complaints-over-freddie-gray-case/

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July 20, 2016

Playing into Mosby’s Hands

By Jonathan F. Keiler

On Monday night at the Republican Convention, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Sherriff David Clarke effectively juxtaposed the recent murder of three police officers in Baton Rouge by a militant black ex-Marine, with Baltimore City’s own militant and lawless prosecution of its own officers in the Freddie Gray case. Clarke’s remarks were appropriate, poignant, and germane, but they may only encourage renegade Baltimore District Attorney Marilyn to press on with that city’s unjust prosecutions of its own police. Although Lieutenant Brian Rice was acquitted of all charges, Clarke defined the purely political nature of the Mosby’s actions, which have nothing to do with justice and everything to do with the Democrat racial pandering.

 

Rice was the fourth officer tried in the Gray cases, and the third fully acquitted. The acquitted officers are Edward Nero and Caesar Goodson. The trial of William Porter resulted in a hung jury. Porter is scheduled to be retried in September. Two other officers (Garrett Miller and Alicia White) are set to be tried in late July and October respectively.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/playing_into_mosbys_hands.htm