If a Maryland medical examiner changes the cause or manner of death on a death certificate to "undetermined" or "homicide," the law now requires action. House Bill 969, the Katherine Morris Death Reclassification Act, took effect October 1, 2024. What the law requires The medical examiner must notify the State's Attorney and the local law [...]
Maryland's HB 969: When a Death Certificate Changes, the Case Must Be Reopened By Sherri Warren For 39 years, my brother's death certificate said "suicide." For most of those years, my family was told there was nothing left to investigate. In March 2024, I sat in front of the Maryland Senate Finance Committee and testified [...]
Know your rights. Understand your rights. Exercise your rights. The Keith Warren Justice Foundation is expanding our mission to provide FREE educational resources designed to help you better understand your constitutional rights and how to protect them in everyday situations. Our Know Your Rights Resource Series is available to download, print and share — because [...]
Know your rights. Understand your rights. Exercise your rights. The Keith Warren Justice Foundation is expanding our mission to provide FREE educational resources designed to help you better understand your constitutional rights and how to protect them in everyday situations. Our Know Your Rights Resource Series is available to download, print and share — because [...]
Know your rights. Understand your rights. Exercise your rights. The Keith Warren Justice Foundation is expanding our mission to provide FREE educational resources designed to help you better understand your constitutional rights and how to protect them in everyday situations. Our Know Your Rights Resource Series is available to download, print and share — because [...]
The Keith Warren Justice Foundation is expanding our mission to provide FREE educational resources designed to help you better understand your constitutional rights and how to protect them in everyday situations. Our Know Your Rights Resource Series is available to download, print and share — because access to information should never depend on your ability [...]
Forty years ago, my brother was nineteen years old when he was found hanging from a tree in Montgomery County, Maryland. His case was closed almost as fast as it was opened — no real investigation, no real answers, just a quiet decision that it wasn't worth looking into. I believe my brother was [...]
After nearly four decades of unanswered questions, my brother Keith Warren’s death has finally been reclassified by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner from suicide to undetermined. This moment represents more than a change in language — it marks a shift in truth, accountability, and acknowledgment that something was deeply wrong all those years [...]
The office of the Medical Examiners in the state of Maryland has come to the conclusion that there is nothing medical in the investigation done by Montgomery County Police Department that would sustain a ruling of suicide in my brother’s death. This is another piece of documentation and information that goes to show that the [...]
We have to start having the conversation of the importance in getting out and making sure that you play your part and secure the future of the next generations. I will always tie everything back to the death of my brother and how I’m still in this fight trying to bring justice & [...]
