Maryland’s Child Interrogation Protection Act is once again under the microscope, as Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler says the nearly two-year-old law is impeding his officers’ hunt for the gun used Friday in a fatal shooting at Joppatowne High School.
“This legislature has handcuffed police,” Gahler said during a press conference Friday afternoon, shortly after the shooting. “There are families of every other student in that school, and the parents of the shooter, who have a right to know why we all stand here today and why there’s a person who has been shot in one of our schools, and we are not allowed to ask the person who committed that act because of this crazy legislature we have in this state.”
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