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No One Is Going to Be Held Criminally Accountable for Freddie Gray's Death

The Baltimore City State's Attorney's office decided to drop all charges Wednesday against the three remaining officers accused of being involved in Freddie Gray's death.
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On Wednesday morning, prosecutors dropped all charges against the three remaining officers accused of the arrest and subsequent death of Freddie Gray while in Baltimore police custody, the Baltimore Sun reports.

Prosecutors believed a conviction for officers Garret Miller, William Porter, and Sergeant Alicia White was unlikely after three previous acquittals in the case under Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams, who was likely to hear the remaining trials. Gray died from a spinal cord injury a week after he was arrested and handcuffed in the back of a police van in April 2015. Wednesday was supposed to mark the beginning of Miller's trial, but the Chief Deputy State's Attorney Michael Schatzow said the department would be dropping all charges.

In previous trials, the prosecution failed to convince the judge that officers Edward Nero, Caesar Goodson, and Lieutenant Brian Ricewere abandoned police protocol when they didn't put Gray in a seatbelt in the back of the police van, and that that decision had caused his death.

The move to drop charges means State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby will not succeed in holding anyone criminally accountable for Gray's death. She addressed supporters after the hearing, saying, "As long as I'm the chief prosecutor in this city, I vow to you that I will fight. I will fight for a fair and equal justice system for all, so that what happened to Freddie Gray never happens to another person."

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