The tragic death of Elwood Officer Noah Shahnavaz has touched off a showdown with police officers on one side and the Marion County justice system on the other. VicRyc reports.
INDIANAPOLIS — The tragic death of Elwood Officer Noah Shahnavaz has touched off a showdown with police officers on one side and the Marion County justice system on the other.
The justice system, where judges and prosecutors must adhere to professional rules that bar them from commenting publicly on criminal cases, is firing back with the help of the Indianapolis Bar Association, which has called Snyder's remarks"inaccurate,""dangerous" and"reckless." Boards, 26 at the time, was charged with attempted murder and other crimes after he shot at officers during a police chase. A jury in 2007 found Boards not guilty of attempted murder but convicted him of the lesser charge of criminal recklessness along with other crimes. The most serious was a charge for illegally possessing a gun as a violent felon.
The problems, Snyder said, go beyond one judge and a single case. Snyder pointed to other recent cases where defendants have been released from jail only to commit other violent acts against Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers. Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears announced in 2019 that his office would no longer file criminal charges against people caught possessing small amounts of marijuana. In June, Mears announced he would not file criminal charges against doctors or women accused of violating the state's new abortion ban.
Voyles said Snyder is unfairly attacking judges and prosecutors for failures in the justice system that go far beyond any single individual's control.
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