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UNITED STATES: CITIES: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND:
Experts Caution Convictions In Freddie Gray Case
Against Baltimore Police Unlikely
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Experts Caution Convictions In Freddie Gray Case
Against Baltimore Police Unlikely
MICHAEL BIESECKER and BEN NUCKOLS
Posted: 05/02/2015 5:55 pm EDT
Updated: 05/02/2015 11:59 pm EDT
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/02/
baltimore-police-trial-freddie-gray_n_7196984.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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BALTIMORE (AP) Baltimore's top prosecutor acted swiftly in charging six
officers in the death of Freddie Gray, who suffered a grave spinal injury
as he was arrested and put into a police transport van, handcuffed and
without a seat belt.
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But getting a jury to convict police officers of murder and manslaughter
will be far harder than obtaining arrest warrants.
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Legal experts say the case is fraught with challenges. A widely shown
video that captured the nation's attention shows Gray, 25, being loaded
into the van, but not what happened once he was inside. Other than the
accused officers, the only known witness is a convicted criminal later
placed in the van's other holding cell, unable to see what was happening
with Gray.
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State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby announced the charges Friday amid a
backdrop of a city in turmoil four days after public anger over Gray's
death triggered riots, with heavily armed troops enforcing a nightly
curfew, and the day before protest marches that drew thousands.
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By bringing charges less than two weeks after Gray's death, Mosby, 35,
said her decision showed "no one is above the law."
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"To the people of Baltimore and the demonstrators across America: I heard
your call for, 'No justice, no peace,'" the prosecutor said. "Your peace
is sincerely needed as I work to deliver justice on behalf of this young
man."
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Within hours, the city's police union questioned the prosecutor's
impartiality, accusing her of a rush to judgment and demanding she recuse
herself from the case.
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Even some of those who support Mosby's stand worry further violence might
erupt if she fails to win convictions.
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Alan Dershowitz, a well-known criminal lawyer from New York and professor
emeritus at Harvard Law School, suggested that Mosby's actions were
motivated more by political expediency and short-term public safety than
strong evidence. He called the charges "outrageous and irresponsible,"
especially a second-degree murder count filed against the van's driver
under a legal principle known as "depraved heart."
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"The decision to file charges was made not based on considerations of
justice, but on considerations of crowd control," Dershowitz said
Saturday.
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