2nd Trial for White Officers Rejected

A judge in Pittsburgh ruled out a second trial for two white police officers accused in the death of a black motorist, saying prosecutors had unfairly singled them out. Allegheny County Judge David Cashman dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against Brentwood police Lt. Milton Mulholland, now a janitor, and Officer Michael Albert from Baldwin, who were among five officers at the scene of Jonny Gammage’s death. He also removed the case from the office of Dist. Atty. Robert Colville and gave it to Atty. Gen. Mike Fisher for any further proceedings. The officers fought with Gammage, 31, of Syracuse, N.Y., in Pittsburgh on Oct. 12, 1995, after police stopped him in a luxury car that belonged to his cousin, Ray Seals, a football player with the Carolina Panthers.