She’s insane, she’s going to try to remove fundamental rights of defendants to bench trials? Good luck with that! All defendants have the right to choose having a jury or a bench trial (trial before a judge). One reason you would want that, as the cops did, is if you feel the prospective jury pool has been adversely influenced by the media.
Via Law Officer:
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby on Thursday proposed a slate of reforms for how police officers accused of misconduct can be investigated and prosecuted, citing her failure to convict a single officer in the Freddie Gray case as her motivation.
She said “equality must be a felt reality” in Baltimore, and that her five proposed reforms — including giving investigators in her office police powers and prosecutors the right to reject a criminal defendant’s request for a bench trial — would go a long way toward leveling the playing field between average citizens and police officers accused of similar offenses.
Mosby said she had challenged a “longstanding protective norm” in charging the six Baltimore officers in the arrest and death of Gray, and ended up learning “hard, valuable and challenging lessons” about the need for institutional change.