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In defending a gun conviction involving a discredited officer, a federal prosecutor asserted to an appellate court that untruthful testimony was presented to the grand jury investigating the corruption involving the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force.
A girl works on a writing exercise. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — A Fourth Circuit panel appeared unlikely Friday to rule in favor of a South Carolina student whose fourth-grade essay offering support for her transgender grandfather was denied publication by her school’s principal. “The student wrote about the importance of treating everyone with kindness, including LGBTQ persons like her grandfather,” Eric Poston, an attorney for the unnamed student with the Columbia-based law firm Chalmers Poston, wrote in a brief to the appeals court. “For that reason, the principa...