20071114 Trooper likely won't face charges by Ryan Marshall Carroll County Times

Trooper likely won't face charges by Ryan Marshall Carroll County Times

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2007/11/14/news/local_news/newsstory2.txt

By Ryan Marshall, Times Staff Writer

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

A Maryland State Police trooper who hit and killed a Finksburg man likely won’t face any charges, according to the Frederick County prosecutor who handled the case.

A decision was made in May not to charge trooper Dale Derr in the November 2006 death of Randy Rakes, 38, of Finksburg, said Kirsten Brown, chief of Frederick County’s district court division. Frederick County reviewed the case because the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office doesn’t handle cases involving Carroll law enforcement officers, Chief Deputy State’s Attorney David Daggett said last week.

Prosecutors decided there wasn’t enough information to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Derr’s speed was the cause of the Nov. 29 accident, Brown said.

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