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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1612972" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/01/law-professor-baltimore-officers-were-overcharged-charges-will-likely-be-dismissed/" target="_blank">Law Prof: Baltimore Officers Were Overcharged, Dismissal Likely</a></strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>John Banzhaf , a George Washington University law professor , says that the charges announced by Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby on Friday “go too far.” “I think a prosecutor is going to have a hard time proving that the actions did in fact cause death, since they seem to have no theory as to how it occurred,”</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong> Banzhaf, who is most famous for his successful campaign to get smoking ads removed from TV, says that Mosby will have to show how each of the six charged officers directly contributed to Gray’s death.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Banzhaf says that even if Gray’s arrest was illegal, as Mosby asserts, the “chain of legal causation” appears to have been broken. Thus, the officers who arrested Gray should not face many of the charges they are accused of committing.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>As for accusations that the officers were negligent in failing to provide medical care to Gray even after he asked for it, Banzhaf said that the defendants would likely bring experts who will testify that prisoners often make false claims about injuries.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>“I think the cops will be able to find lots of experts who will say ‘this is pretty well standard,'” Banzhaf said. The officers’ defense experts would likely argue that “lots of people who are arrested start screaming that they are in pain, they can’t breath, they are hurt and so on. They do it to get leniency, or to get cuffs removed, and they also do it so that they set up claims stating that they were mishandled by police.”</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1612972, member: 12952"] [SIZE=4][B][URL='http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/01/law-professor-baltimore-officers-were-overcharged-charges-will-likely-be-dismissed/']Law Prof: Baltimore Officers Were Overcharged, Dismissal Likely[/URL][/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][B]John Banzhaf , a George Washington University law professor , says that the charges announced by Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby on Friday “go too far.” “I think a prosecutor is going to have a hard time proving that the actions did in fact cause death, since they seem to have no theory as to how it occurred,”[/B] [B] Banzhaf, who is most famous for his successful campaign to get smoking ads removed from TV, says that Mosby will have to show how each of the six charged officers directly contributed to Gray’s death.[/B] [B]Banzhaf says that even if Gray’s arrest was illegal, as Mosby asserts, the “chain of legal causation” appears to have been broken. Thus, the officers who arrested Gray should not face many of the charges they are accused of committing.[/B] [B]As for accusations that the officers were negligent in failing to provide medical care to Gray even after he asked for it, Banzhaf said that the defendants would likely bring experts who will testify that prisoners often make false claims about injuries.[/B] [B]“I think the cops will be able to find lots of experts who will say ‘this is pretty well standard,'” Banzhaf said. The officers’ defense experts would likely argue that “lots of people who are arrested start screaming that they are in pain, they can’t breath, they are hurt and so on. They do it to get leniency, or to get cuffs removed, and they also do it so that they set up claims stating that they were mishandled by police.”[/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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