The D.C. Police Union is opposing the potential release of a man who ambushed and killed Metropolitan Police Officer Brian T. Gibson in 1997, as the murderer seeks sentencing relief under a law intended to help formerly young convicts get out of prison early.
The union voiced its disapproval after lawyers for Marthell Dean moved last week to have his life sentence without the possibility of parole reduced under the District’s Second Look Amendment Act.
The law allows people who committed a crime before they turned 25 to petition for their release after spending at least 15 years behind bars. The labor group criticized D.C. Council member Charles Allen, Ward 6 Democrat, for helping draft the law that has been on the books for nearly a decade…