Freddie Gray case ends with no convictions for any officers involved

The city spent roughly $7.4 million on the trials, according to Anthony McCarthy, a spokesman for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

Mosby also wanted to make it clear that she felt the current police administration led by Commissioner Kevin Davis has been cooperative to work with going forward.

Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney for Baltimore, argued Wednesday that there is an “inherent bias” whenever “police police themselves”.

The decision means that no one will be held criminally responsible for the death of Gray, a 25-year-old black man whose neck was broken while he was unrestrained in the back of a police van in April 2015.

Miller was compelled to testify at Nero’s trial under a limited form of immunity created to protect his constitutional right against self-incrimination while freeing him to speak about the events that transpired on the morning of Gray’s arrest. “We stand behind Marilyn and her prosecuting team and my family’s proud to have them represent us”.

Investigators say the girls, who were 12 at the time of the attack in 2014, plotted for months before luring their classmate into some woods after a birthday sleepover and repeatedly stabbing her. “I know they killed him”.

If a judge with that background could not convict the officers, Schatzow and Bledsoe were asked, did that indicate that the cases were flawed? Before Miller’s trial could proceed, prosecutors were required to show that they had not gleaned any evidence or strategic advantage in Miller’s trial from his immunized testimony.

Justice has been done, Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police President Gene Ryan said Wednesday after charges were dropped against the three officers.

Ryan said Mosby’s comments earlier in the day were “outrageous and uncalled for and simply untrue”.

The death added fuel to the growing Black Lives Matter movement and caused turmoil in Baltimore, including large protests and the worst riots the city had seen in decades.

Tawanda Jones is a Baltimore activist whose brother Tyrone West died three years ago after an encounter with Baltimore police. And I give a lot of respect and a lot of credit to those police officers who probably could’ve made a deal; they stuck it out and she had no chance.

But legal experts said Mosby may have botched the case by moving too quickly.

Freddie Gray’s stepfather, Richard Shipley, said his family stands behind Mosby and her team’s decision.

Prosecutions of police officers are rare, and convictions are rarer still, due to the high burden of proof prosecutors face in showing that an officer’s use of force was unreasonable.

Six Baltimore police officers were charged in connection to Freddie Gray’s death in 2015.

A post-mortem report found that Mr Gray sustained his injury by slamming into a van wall during the ride. What we know is that Freddie Gray is dead and that he died while in the custody of Baltimore police. Three other officers accused in the case had already been acquitted of similar and even more severe charges.

However, this judicially mandated ignorance presumably includes being unaware of Judge William’s written verdict in the Nero case and others which quote and refer to Miller extensively.

She declined to take questions, citing a lawsuit the officers have filed against her.

CNN left messages Wednesday with Cogen and his attorney.

The prosecution’s announcement Wednesday closed the criminal cases against the officers.

Officers acted reasonably in arresting Gray, and the medical examiner concluded that Gray would not have been injured if he had remained where he was placed – prone on the floor.

Three officers were brought to trial and acquitted; the trial of a fourth ended in a mistrial.

Gray’s death, and the protests that followed, catapulted Baltimore to the center of a national reckoning over race and policing. New prosecutors were expected to take on Miller’s case and Porter’s retrial to maintain the integrity of the immunity offers. “Freddie Gray should be alive today, and someone should be held responsible for his death”.