CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cuyahoga County prosecutor has told the NAACP in Cleveland that the law doesn’t allow him to release transcripts from the grand jury that voted not to indict two white police officers for the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black child playing with a pellet gun.
Prosecutor Tim McGinty, in a recent letter to the civil rights group, says his office will continue to provide reports and documents about lethal uses of force by police but by law cannot release grand jury transcripts in the Tamir Rice case.
The grand jury voted recently not to indict the officers for the November 2014 shooting outside a recreation center.
NAACP officials have said they will go to court to seek release of the transcripts.
- Posted January 11, 2016
- Tweet This | Share on Facebook
Prosecutor won't release grand jury transcripts
headlines Macomb
headlines National
- Incarceration series includes female inmates but doesn’t tell full story
- ACLU and BigLaw firm use ‘Orange is the New Black’ in hashtag effort to promote NY jail reform
- Former DOJ official who alleged election fraud violated at least one ethics rule, ethics committee says
- Winston & Strawn will provide reduced-cost legal services for routine tasks under Winston Legal Solutions umbrella
- Should Justice Sotomayor retire? Chemerinsky, White House haven’t joined calls for her to step down
- Which BigLaw firms are increasing lateral associate hiring the most? One made legal headlines last year
