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16-YEAR-OLD JAILED ON FALSE
CHARGES
By Glenn Puit, Review Journal,
10-08-02
Police confirmed Monday that a 16-year-old boy was wrongly
arrested on suspicion of murder last month, and the teen spent nearly a
week in the Clark County Detention Center before the mistake was
discovered.
Jamal Brown, 16, was cleared of all charges by prosecutors
Friday after it had been learned that police had confused Brown with
another person who also uses the name Jamal.
"We are regretful that anyone spent time in jail for being
wrongly accused," said Las Vegas police Homicide Lt. Tom
Monahan.
Brown's family declined comment Monday, but authorities
confirmed the mistaken identity was first discovered by Brown's attorney,
Clark County Deputy Public Defender Nancy Lemcke and Steven Yoshida, a
public defender's office investigator.
Both
declined on the specifics of the unsolved murder.
"I can say that the police and the district attorney's
office did the right thing in this case," Lemcke said. "They
realized the mistake, and they immediately followed up on
it."
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