A bill advanced Tuesday that will enable Maryland's Attorney General to prosecute the police while investigating deaths, or injuries that resulted in death.
was formed in the attorney general’s office to investigate police-involved deaths of civilians throughout the state. While current law empowers the division to probe the cases and provide facts to local prosecutors, it’s local prosecutors who decide whether to bring charges.of interest between local prosecutors and police. Opponents say it's an overreach of state powers over locally elected prosecutors.
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