Saturday, May 02, 2015

"Cops in Freddie Gray's death: Could politics entangle prosecutor's case?"-Christian Science Monitor.


Top row, left to right: Caesar Goodson, Garrett Miller and Edward Nero.Bottom row: William Porter, Brian Rice and Alicia White.


"...the prosecutorial stakes are inordinately high.

Prosecutors who have failed to navigate public pressure and the facts on the ground have in the past had spectacular falls-from-grace. North Carolina prosecutor Mike Nifong, who falsely prosecuted a group of Duke lacrosse players for rape, was disbarred and disgraced."
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there are already rumblings in Baltimore that the officers won’t be able to get a fair shake, given Mosby’s nod to protesters. At the very least, experts say, defense attorneys now have some cause for asking a judge to move trials out of Baltimore, perhaps to a more police-friendly locale.

"She better be ready. It's going to be baptism by fire,' J. Wyndal Gordon, a longtime defense attorney in Baltimore who has litigated against officers in excessive-force cases, told the Associated Press.