BALTIMORE — A prisoner who was convicted of killing an off-duty Baltimore Police detective is accused of falsifying evidence to back up a recent attempt to exonerate himself.
Police and prosecutors say Brandon Grimes, who has been behind bars since the 2007 shootout that killed Det. Troy Lamont Chesley Sr., filed a fake ballistics report in court last year in support of his effort to get a judge to declare him innocent. The doctored report claimed that Grimes, 40, was wounded by the same gunfire that killed Chesley.
The charges accuse Grimes of developing the scheme with an Indiana woman over the course of several years. In addition to noting various inconsistencies in the doctored bullet report, charging documents point to numerous recorded jail calls where Grimes is heard discussing Maryland Supreme Court rulings, clipping and Xeroxing documents, and the potential payout from the state if he was exonerated…