Deryl Bright Jr. spent months on an ankle monitor, missing out on prom, graduation, and his job as a pharmacy technician. State’s Attorney Ivan Bates says his office is changing how evidence is reviewed.
For seven months, Deryl Bright Jr. spent the remaining days of his senior year of high school wearing an ankle monitor. The Baltimore teen, who attended Green Street Academy, could not attend his graduation, prom, or family trips centered around his birthday.
The reason? Investigators wrongly identified Bright as participating in an attempted carjacking and robbery in Baltimore earlier this year. And what occurred to the now 18-year-old is something that City State Attorney Ivan Bates seeks to prevent from happening again…