Officer William Porter and seated jury.
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According to court records, Gray was charged March 13 with assault and malicious destruction of property.
Gray was arrested for fleeing police and possessing a knife. He was released the same day on $5,000 bond.
“Other than he was injured, no”, Allan replied.
A judge has denied a defense motion for a mistrial in the manslaughter trial of a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray.
While not sanctioning the prosecution, Judge Williams said prosecutors violated rules of discovery, which requires the attorneys to share evidence they gather with the opposing counsel.
“They say most cops are good”, said D’Antuono, “but good cops don’t let bad cops get away with killing defenseless citizens”.
Prosecutors said they did not learn of the statement until Monday morning when they were notified by two assistant state’s attorneys.
Murtha, who cross-examined Allan Monday, asked whether there was any evidence Gray had a pre-existing injury.
Rumors that Gray had back problems and even previous surgeries circulated over the summer, but this is the first time anything concrete on the matter has come to light.
City fire paramedic Angelique Herbert testified that she responded to a call for an arm injury and was directed to the van. Porter said medics don’t want to transport prisoners who are already in a police vehicle.
Allan said that occurred during the van’s fourth stop, when Goodson summoned Porter to check on his passenger.
As his testimony drew to a close, Soriano asserted that although Gray’s injury was so severe that lasting consequences including possible paraplegia were nearly certain, his life might have been saved if he had been given immediate medical attention rather than spending nearly another half-hour in the police van.
Herbert says that when she arrived, Gray wasn’t breathing and no one was giving him first aid.
Murtha suggested the homicide definition from the National Association Medical Examiners is a standard.
Because there were no witnesses to Gray’s injuries, the autopsy provides the most complete narrative of what happened in the back of the police van on April 12, and has served as a key part of the prosecution’s case.
According to Soriano’s testimony, Johnson suffered an injury in the same section of his spinal cord as Gray, and that in pulling the man out of the van, the officers exacerbated his injury. Porter joined the force in 2012 and forgot about his training in placing seat belts on those who ride in the van, because no one ever acted out on it.
Allan testified that Gray was injured between the second and fourth stops of the van, and that she wouldn’t have ruled the death a homicide had Porter or the van’s driver, Officer Caesar R. Goodson Jr., sought medical care for Gray at the fourth stop.
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Carol Allan testified under cross-examination Monday. Prosecutors have painted Williams as an indifferent officer who didn’t call for a medic despite Gray’s indication he needed help, and whose failure to buckle Gray into a seatbelt amounts to criminal negligence.
