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Article: Maryland Legal Briefs: August 17, 2009
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2009
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Court backs dismissal of charges
The Court of Special Appeals has upheld the dismissal of reckless
endangerment charges against counselors at a school for troubled
juveniles who failed to call 911 while a student was dying.
Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Simmons III died at Bowling Brook
Preparatory School in January 2007 after he was restrained as a form
of discipline. His family, which has a civil suit pending, alleges
that counselors sat on him, slowly asphyxiating him, and that they
waited for 40 minutes after he stopped breathing to call paramedics.
A Carroll County Circuit Court judge had dismissed the grand jury
indictment against the counselors for failure to state an offense.
The ...