White had been the original key suspect in the case, but he had made a deal with the state, pleading guilty to attempted robbery, taking a 10-year prison sentence and agreeing to testify against Grant. Mark White had taken a polygraph examination administered by the Maryland State Police, but neither Grant’s trial attorney nor the jury were informed that White had failed the test.
The investigation of Grant’s case by the law students and their professors revealed the following issues: There is now no question about the fact.” The students and professors were unequivocal about Grant’s wrongful conviction: “Mark Grant did not kill Michael Gough. They sent a report and a plea for clemency to O’Malley in the summer of 2008. Over the next two years, they and their students conducted an investigation and concluded that Grant had been wrongfully convicted of felony murder. In 2006, he and another professor, Renee Hutchins, agreed to look into Grant’s case. Michael Millemann was head of the clinical law program at the law school. Supreme Court, in a series of rulings, found that giving juveniles harsh sentences amounted to a violation of the constitutional prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment.” But those decisions and the understandings they represent came too late for Mark Grant, who started serving his sentence just as prison populations soared throughout the country. That trend continued for more than three decades before the U.S. In the 1980s, police and prosecutors increasingly charged juvenile offenders as adults, and judges started sending more of them to prison. Grant was 15, standing no more than 5-foot-2, when he entered the Maryland Division of Corrections. (Ulysses Muñoz)Ī year later, after White and Brawner testified that Grant was the killer, a Baltimore Circuit Court jury deliberated two hours and found him guilty of felony murder - that is, a murder that occurred during a robbery. Report from the University of Maryland School of Law advocating for Mark Grant's life sentence to be commuted.
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