Baltimore judge reverses Freddie Gray protester's conviction
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A judge has reversed the sole conviction against a Baltimore activist accused of unlawfully using a megaphone while protesting the mistrial of a police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man was fatally injured while in police custody.
The Baltimore Sun (http://bsun.md/2d49B8R ) reports a Circuit Court judge on appeal Monday dismissed 22-year-old Kwame Rose's conviction of failing to obey a law enforcement order.
Rose had been found guilty on the charge in March, but found not guilty of three underlying violations.
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Police said Rose had unlawfully continued to talk Dec. 16 on a megaphone while a deputy was giving orders on his own megaphone outside a downtown courthouse on Dec. 16 following a mistrial in the case against Officer William Porter. Porter was one of six officers charged after Gray was fatally injured while in a police van.
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Information from: The Baltimore Sun, http://www.baltimoresun.com