A great miscarriage of justice has occurred in Baltimore City ("Police detective says misleading narrative presented to grand jury in Freddie Gray case, records show," June 25).
Det. Dawnyell Taylor now says that last year she appeared before the grand jury investigating Freddie Gray's death in police custody and that just prior to testifying the city prosecutor's office handed her talking points that did not agree with her investigation.
Prosecutors also intervened during her testimony when it was obvious that her testimony conflicted with their version of what happened. Moreover, Ms. Taylor offered her notes to City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's office, but it declined to take them or even look at what the investigation concluded.
It has been determined that prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense that was favorable to the accused. In addition, it has been more than a year since these officers were charged and their right to a speedy trial has been ignored.
So what exactly is Ms. Mosby up to? Is she trying to prove she is competent trying criminal cases even though she comes with a civil litigation background? Or is she trying to prove to the citizens of Baltimore that she is tough on police? Either way she has failed three times so far.
There needs to be accountability and it needs to start with the state bar association investigating Ms. Mosby. Then the police department needs to investigate Ms. Taylor and why she perjured herself before the grand jury. She gave testimony she knew was not factual, putting her fellow officers in jeopardy. That's unforgivable and she should be busted down to a foot patrol.
Finally, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake went off half-cocked by giving the Gray family more than $6 million to settle their lawsuit before any civil litigation was filed.
(I almost forgot Deputy State's Attorney Janice Bledsoe, who presented Ms. Taylor with prosecutors' grand jury talking points. She should also be disbarred.)
It is time for Ms. Mosby to face the fact that she doesn't know what she is doing,. For her to continue prosecuting the remaining four officers using testimony she knows was cooked up by her office not only is wrong, it is criminal.
J. Michael Collins, Reisterstown