Family wants trooper who killed pedestrian charged

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The mother of a man killed last year by a state trooper?s speeding cruiser in Carroll County is demanding Maryland?s attorney general bring charges against the trooper.

The Frederick County State?s Attorney?s Office, which investigated the accident, decided in May not to charge Trooper Dale Derr because speed alone does not constitute “reckless disregard for human life,” said Kirsten Brown, head of Frederick?s District Court division.

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