BALTIMORE -- Attorneys for the six police officers charged in Freddie Gray's death say prosecutors steered investigators away from allegations about Gray's behavior in past interactions with law enforcement. The attorneys claim detectives were told Gray had a history of participating in "crash-for-cash" schemes in which people hurt themselves to collect settlements - a piece of information attorneys say would be useful for their case.
In a motion filed Thursday in Baltimore Circuit Court, defense attorneys allege that investigators for the Baltimore Police Department had information that Gray had a history of intentionally injuring himself in order to collect insurance money. The attorneys allege in the filing that police investigators knew that Gray once injured himself so severely while in a Baltimore jail that he required medical attention. The attorneys say in documents that when police investigators tried to follow up on the evidence, prosecutors in the state's attorney's office told them "not to do the defense attorneys' jobs for them."
Defense attorneys also say in the motion that high-ranking members of the state's attorney's office met with Dr. Carole Allen of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner a week before Gray's autopsy was complete and his death ruled a homicide. In addition, attorneys say the prosecutors didn't provide the medical examiner's office with a copy of the statement of Donta Allen, a man who had been inside the police van where Gray suffered his injury. Investigators initially said Allen told them that Gray had been making banging noises in the back of the van. But Allen later told the media that police had exaggerated his account.
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Disgusting, a prosecutors job is to seek the truth not manufacture a conviction
ReplyDeleteSpd does the same to their officers, unless you golf with admin.
DeleteDoes this really surprise anyone? Can you imagine what the street of Baltimore will look like after these charges are dropped and/or they are found not guilty? It will be a warzone....
ReplyDeleteThe irony would be laughable. Accused released because of prosecutorial conduct.
Deletehang them all.
ReplyDeleteThe inmates are running the asylum.
ReplyDeleteOnce again Mosby’s office demonstrates that they don’t know what their professional and ethical obligations as prosecutors are… they have just as much of a duty to seek out exculpatory evidence as they do to seek out incriminating evidence.
ReplyDeleteSome might even argue that they have even more of a duty to seek out exculpatory evidence to ensure that they aren’t prosecuting innocent people.
It is one thing to not help the defense. It is another to block exculpatory evidence from getting to the defense. In this case, if he had a history of trying to get quick cash by feigning injury that is critical information.
ReplyDeleteWe could nip this kind of fraud in the bud if states would simply ban criminals from filing lawsuits and/or put whatever damages are awarded into a trust account from which the felon’s victims would be paid.
ReplyDeleteGetting arrested shouldn’t present the chance of a financial windfall for the criminal, because it fosters a “you can’t win if you don’t play” type mentality where they will seek out interactions with the police in the hope of hitting the jackpot which is exactly what they have been doing in Baltimore City for years now. The city had to cap out the lawsuits at $200,000 this because they know 99.9% are bogus and it's easier and less expensive to just pay.
Funny part is the word around top circles is the case is about to explode and the six officers will be free of the charges and they are trying to wait till winter snowy freezing day to announce it in hopes the protesters aka " rioters " will not come out ....WATCH
ReplyDeleteGoing to be fun at the shooting gallery in Baltimore! Deer hunters need to volunteer to guard businesses, shooting looters is a whole lot more interesting than just 4 legged animals!
ReplyDeleteWait a minute; you mean Mosby's has no concept of exculpatory evidence and is corrupt? SHOCKER! What makes anyone think Mosby is any different than her family of fired cops from Boston?
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ReplyDeleteJeepers. Thought Mosbys and Rawlings were negotiating over where to erect the gallows and what the split % would be on the cable TV deal with BET?