See MAJR’s Issue Brief: https://www.ma4jr.org/police-powers/
No one is served by a child’s false confession: The perpetrator of the crime remains unidentified, an innocent young person is locked up, and our communities are no safer.
Commentary: Attacks on interrogation law ignore what we know about children
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Maryland must uphold recently enacted legal protections for children who are subject to interrogation by police, say Jessica Feierman, an attorney and senior managing director at the Juvenile Law Cent..."Besides building trust between residents and police officers, Smith said the hope is for the police boards to analyze complaints that could decrease legal action and settlements because of police misconduct."
www.marylandmatters.org
The set up of police accountability boards continue to fluctuate throughout the state with some up and running and others slowly developed."Independent studies have shown that felony murder is disproportionately, and overwhelmingly, used to lock up black and brown people."
A Teen Got 55 Years After Cops Killed His Friend. He Might Be Coming Home.
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LaKeith Smith is finally being resentenced. But he’ll face the same Alabama judge who sent him to prison for felony murder when cops killed his friend.The chamber debated for nearly 90 minutes about Senate Bill 290, sponsored by Judicial Proceedings Chair William C. Smith Jr. (D-Montgomery), which would give the investigative division exclusive authority to prosecute police-involved deaths.
www.marylandmatters.org
Maryland Senate granted preliminary approval to give the attorney general's independent investigations division prosecutorial power.
