State trooper racial slur complaint reinstated

Published October 10, 2014 7:12pm ET



ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Baltimore County Circuit Court will have to again consider a legal complaint that seeks details about an internal investigation of a state trooper who used a racial slur in a voicemail message to a black woman, a state appeals court has ruled.

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the state’s intermediate appellate court, found that the Maryland State Police could not make a broad claim that every document relating to Teleta Dashiell’s complaint of police misconduct could be exempt from disclosure.

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