A Baltimore police officer will face retrial on a manslaughter charge over the death of black detainee Freddie Gray starting on June 13, a Maryland judge ruled on Monday, after the officer’s first trial ended in a deadlocked jury.
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Last week’s hung jury complicates the way forward for the prosecution.
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Prosecutors say he checked on Gray several times, but ignored his cries for help in the back of a police van. All of the officers have pleaded not guilty. The other five officers will be tried before that, beginning next month.
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What remains unclear is the role that Officer Porter would play in the trial of other officers, at least one of whom is scheduled to be tried in January.
Goodson faces the most serious charges in Gray’s death. The new trial date will be formally entered at a hearing Tuesday morning.
David Jaros, a University of Baltimore associate law professor, said that Porter was a potentially major witness against Goodson and without him prosecutors “know that the case against Officer Goodson is significantly weakened”.
The court’s deliberation concerns at which point Porter should have called for medical attention on Gray’s behalf. Porter testified that Gray didn’t appear to be injured, and that he notified the driver of the van and a supervisor that Gray wanted to go to the hopsital, accoridng to the AP report.
Prosecutors need Porter’s testimony, experts say, even though Deputy Chief State’s Attorney Michael Schatzow attacked Porter’s credibility during closing arguments, saying Porter had “lied” to jurors. Porter “just didn’t care enough”, she said.
Following the declaration of a mistrial in Porter’s case, two activists were arrested.
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“There is literally no evidence” that Porter’s actions in any way caused it, the defense argued. “They did the best that they could”, he said.
