Gray family attorney Billy Murphy, too, applauded the decision, saying, "You can't convict people unless you know the evidence," and that Judge Barry Williams had followed the law as he saw it.
"The State's Attorney for Baltimore City rushed to charge him, as well as the other five officers, completely disregarding the facts of the case and the applicable law. Officer Nero is appreciative of the reasoned judgment that Judge Barry Williams applied in his ruling," said the statement from defense attorney Marc Zayon.-CNN
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Peter Moskos, a former Baltimore police officer who teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said that Ms. Mosby had “overplayed her hand.”
Charges were filed too quickly, he said, adding that prosecutors should have spent more time bolstering cases against one or two officers who may have been most culpable. “Someone dying doesn’t always make it a crime,” Mr. Moskos said. “The prosecutors are trying to find social justice, but these are trials of individual cops.”
A lawyer for Officer Nero, Marc Zayon, called for the charges against the remaining officers to be dropped.
“The State’s Attorney for Baltimore City rushed to charge him, as well as the other five officers, completely disregarding the facts of the case and the applicable law,” Mr. Zayon said in a statement.
“Like Officer Nero,” Mr. Zayon added, “these officers have done nothing wrong.”
Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor and a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, called the charges an unusual — and possibly unprecedented — attempt by a prosecutor to convict a police officer for making an arrest that lacked probable cause.
A lawyer for the Gray family, William H. Murphy Jr., called Judge Williams’s ruling an “excellent opinion.”
“He did his job under very trying circumstances,” Mr. Murphy said.-New York Times
"The State's Attorney for Baltimore City rushed to charge him, as well as the other five officers, completely disregarding the facts of the case and the applicable law. Officer Nero is appreciative of the reasoned judgment that Judge Barry Williams applied in his ruling," said the statement from defense attorney Marc Zayon.-CNN
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Peter Moskos, a former Baltimore police officer who teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said that Ms. Mosby had “overplayed her hand.”
Charges were filed too quickly, he said, adding that prosecutors should have spent more time bolstering cases against one or two officers who may have been most culpable. “Someone dying doesn’t always make it a crime,” Mr. Moskos said. “The prosecutors are trying to find social justice, but these are trials of individual cops.”
A lawyer for Officer Nero, Marc Zayon, called for the charges against the remaining officers to be dropped.
“The State’s Attorney for Baltimore City rushed to charge him, as well as the other five officers, completely disregarding the facts of the case and the applicable law,” Mr. Zayon said in a statement.
“Like Officer Nero,” Mr. Zayon added, “these officers have done nothing wrong.”
Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor and a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, called the charges an unusual — and possibly unprecedented — attempt by a prosecutor to convict a police officer for making an arrest that lacked probable cause.
A lawyer for the Gray family, William H. Murphy Jr., called Judge Williams’s ruling an “excellent opinion.”
“He did his job under very trying circumstances,” Mr. Murphy said.-New York Times
