Attorneys for the officers argued in a second motion that prosecutors violated Maryland law by rushing to charge their clients on 1 May with crimes including murder and manslaughter over the death of Gray, 25, whose neck was broken in custody, prompting protests and unrest.
A second defendant, Zoheb Majid, 20, was jailed for 10 years for her manslaughter.
Eleven serious offences, including manslaughter, kidnap and arson with intent to endanger life, were committed in England and Wales by offenders freed from jail but supposedly subject to the most rigorous level of monitoring by police, probation officers, social services and other agencies.
Having already had their charge reduced from murder to manslaughter by recklessness, Martin found the five guilty of the even lesser crime of manslaughter "by negligence".
They embraced me and offered their forgiveness, and when the Brooklyn DA hit me with a long list of charges, ranging from manslaughter to assault with a deadly weapon – I think it was 17 charges in total – they were the ones who stood up and said they didn't want to destroy two young lives instead of one.
If alcoholism in pregnancy is "attempted manslaughter", as a QC told the court of appeal this week, surely abortion is murder.
On appeal, the convictions were reduced to manslaughter and they were released in November 1989, five years after the killing.
The Baltimore police lieutenant charged with the manslaughter of Freddie Gray had an innocent man arrested and prosecuted as part of a years-long personal feud over his love life that city police chiefs were repeatedly warned about.
The Baltimore police lieutenant charged with the manslaughter of Freddie Gray was accused of threatening to kill an ex-girlfriend several years before allegedly abusing his position to harass another former partner and her family.
Gill later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced at Salisbury crown court to four and a half years in prison – a sentence branded an "absolute joke" by Young's family.
But since being imprisoned for manslaughter two years ago, the former teacher has been trained to educate fellow inmates about how HIV is prevented, transmitted, and treated – in doing so helping to fill the gap between Kenya's severe disease burden and its shortage of skilled health staff.
