Judge: Police officer’s trial to move forward on all charges
Source: washington post
BALTIMORE — A trial will move ahead on all charges against a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of a black prisoner whose neck was broken in a police transport van, but the judge said Thursday he has questions about the most serious charge at the center of the state’s case.
Judge Barry Williams said the charge of second-degree “depraved heart” murder was “a closer call” than the others. Yet after Officer Caesar Goodson’s attorneys moved to dismiss all charges, he declined.
Goodson’s attorneys made the request after prosecutors rested their case Wednesday.
Defense attorney Andrew Graham contended Thursday that prosecutors had failed to prove Goodson, the van driver, gave 25-year-old Freddie Gray a “rough ride” as Gray was handcuffed and shackled on the floor. Graham noted that one of the state’s key witnesses, an expert on police policy, couldn’t say for sure whether he saw evidence of a rough ride — police lingo for putting a prisoner in a police wagon without a seatbelt and driving so erratically that he or she is thrown around.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/defense-set-to-push-hard-to-acquit-baltimore-police-officer/2016/06/16/dc5a0040-339a-11e6-ab9d-1da2b0f24f93_story.html
Maybe there will be justice for Freddie Gray.
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