3rd Officer Acquitted In Black Man’s Police Custody Death
July 21, 2016
A third consecutive acquittal and ruling once again that prosecutors failed to prove officers intentionally hurt Freddie Gray
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Freddie Gray: 2nd officer must testify against colleagues
April 27, 2016
Judge Barry Williams granted a request from prosecutors to force Officer Garrett Miller to testify against Officer Edward Nero and Lt. Brian Rice as they await planned trials
Officer must testify against van driver in Freddie Gray case
January 14, 2016
The retrial of a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray could be compromised by prosecutors’ insistence on using his testimony against a colleague, a judge warned. Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams ruled in the state’s favor that William Porter, whose trial ended in a mistrial last month, can be compelled to take the stand in the trial of van driver Caesar Goodson or face the possibility of jail time. Porter’s attorney asked an appeals court on Thursday to block that ruling so that the officer can’t be forced to testify. Goodson is facing the most serious
Baltimore sees 11 shot, 2 fatally, over the weekend
August 6, 2015
Fresh off its deadliest month in 43 years, Baltimore saw 11 people shot — and two of them killed — in the first two days of August. The latest incident occurred early Sunday August 2 in northwest Baltimore, acting Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said at a news conference held to announce the creation of a multiagency task for to deal with the upswing in homicides plaguing the city. Davis said the Baltimore Federal Homicide Task Force, a new partnership among the police department and five federal law enforcement agencies, will go into effect Monday and operate for 60 days. The