The parents of Derrick Lamont Gloster Jr. and Brandon Rashad Mills were outraged to learn from the Herald that Miami-Dade prosecutors had allowed William Henry "Little Bill" Brown to get away with their sons' murders as part of a plea deal in which he received 25 years for two different murders and no time at all for the other killings to which he confessed.
Prosecutors turned one of the two triggermen into a jailhouse asset and gave him special treatment, even as he continued to commit violence. This raises profound questions about accountability and transparency within the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office.
In exchange for the deal, Brown testified against co-defendants and cooperated as an informant within the Miami-Dade jail, a problematic arrangement that has undermined three murder cases, highlighting the troubling interactions between criminal justice and plea bargaining.
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