A man who was jailed without bail for months because a Baltimore police officer said he tried to disarm her was set free Tuesday after Officer Traci L. McKissick changed her story during emotional courtroom testimony.
Earlier this year, McKissick told prosecutors that Joseph A. Forrest was the man who stepped on her hand as she held a gun and wrestled with Forrest's 61-year-old uncle, who was killed by police during an altercation in February.
Is there more of a the back story that is not in the article? The way the article reads the case was "jeopardized" by the officer's lack of credibility on the stand and the fact that the defense attorney was familiar with her from a previous case:
But that case, like this one, was dropped because of evidence problems.
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"Her testimony on this was horrible, it was all contradictory," defense attorney Warren A. Brown said yesterday, referring to the Forrest case. He ticked off a list of what he said were conflicting statements, including the number of times McKissick discharged her weapon.
Brown represented the 2005 suspect as well as the 45-year-old Forrest and says both cases involved inconsistent statements by McKissick.
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Sorry, that came about after Simon's essay:
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-08-05/news/0908040089_...
Earlier this year, McKissick told prosecutors that Joseph A. Forrest was the man who stepped on her hand as she held a gun and wrestled with Forrest's 61-year-old uncle, who was killed by police during an altercation in February.
Is there more of a the back story that is not in the article? The way the article reads the case was "jeopardized" by the officer's lack of credibility on the stand and the fact that the defense attorney was familiar with her from a previous case:
But that case, like this one, was dropped because of evidence problems.
...
"Her testimony on this was horrible, it was all contradictory," defense attorney Warren A. Brown said yesterday, referring to the Forrest case. He ticked off a list of what he said were conflicting statements, including the number of times McKissick discharged her weapon.
Brown represented the 2005 suspect as well as the 45-year-old Forrest and says both cases involved inconsistent statements by McKissick.