Because Slager's trial date isn't until October, lawyers argued that keeping him in jail was akin to punishing him for the crime without a conviction.
Circuit Judge Clifton Newman wrote that prosecutors’ evidence against the former North Charleston police officer, Michael Slager in Walter Scott’s shooting death was “persuasive”, denying Slager’s bid to be freed while awaiting trial on murder charges. The judge continued, “After careful consideration of all of the evidence presented and the nature and circumstances of the […]
For the three years Kalief Browder sat in New York’s Rikers Island, he probably wondered what the difference would have been if his family could…
