The judge has already ordered the attorney's into his chambers to hear arguments for a retrial.
They don't know yet if there is going to be a new trial for this trial. And I am not really for a new trial for officer Porter by the State in this case.
Instead of a dramatic conclusion to the first of six trials of police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, the mistrial left Baltimore in suspense and confusion, with no immediate understanding of what happens next.
The court has yet to set a new trial date.
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Prosecutors said Porter shares blame for Gray's death on April 19 because he didn't call an ambulance when Gray said he needed to go to the hospital, nor did he buckle Gray into a seat belt that would have prevented him from being injured inside the metal compartment if the van turned sharply or braked suddenly.
Porter told jurors he didn't think Gray was injured when he lifted him from the van's floor to the bench, and that buckling him in wasn't his responsibility. He said he told the van driver, Caesar Goodson, to take Gray to the hospital, and that the wagon driver is in charge of making sure a prisoner is strapped in while the van is moving.
Goodson faces the most serious charge of second-degree "depraved-heart" murder. His trial is scheduled for Jan. 6. He also is charged with manslaughter, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office.
Prosecutors intended to call Porter to testify against the driver and another officer whose trial is slated to begin after Goodson's. The mistrial may complicate this strategy, since Porter has a Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, according to attorney Warren Alperstein.
E.T.A. It looks like that there is a Federal Investigation still going on into this case. From Wikipedia:
As of May 2015, Federal authorities were conducting three probes into Baltimore police, the "pattern of practice" investigation initiated by Lynch, a collaborative review which began in the fall of 2014, and a civil rights probe into the death of Gray.[77]
"And I've said it before, you want to know what Joseph Smith looked like in Nauvoo, just look at Trump." - Fence Sitter
Then what was your point? Do you think riots are justified when you don't get the verdict you want in court?
Never said that any riots are ever justified. In America we have the right to peaceably assemble. You are projecting your racist crap onto others. Going back to my original point it is that not buckling in a person in a automobile shows a serious lack of concern for human life.
The judge has already ordered the attorney's into his chambers to hear arguments for a retrial.
They don't know yet if there is going to be a new trial for this trial. And I am not really for a new trial for officer Porter by the State in this case.
Instead of a dramatic conclusion to the first of six trials of police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, the mistrial left Baltimore in suspense and confusion, with no immediate understanding of what happens next.
The court has yet to set a new trial date.
...
Prosecutors said Porter shares blame for Gray's death on April 19 because he didn't call an ambulance when Gray said he needed to go to the hospital, nor did he buckle Gray into a seat belt that would have prevented him from being injured inside the metal compartment if the van turned sharply or braked suddenly.
Porter told jurors he didn't think Gray was injured when he lifted him from the van's floor to the bench, and that buckling him in wasn't his responsibility. He said he told the van driver, Caesar Goodson, to take Gray to the hospital, and that the wagon driver is in charge of making sure a prisoner is strapped in while the van is moving.
Goodson faces the most serious charge of second-degree "depraved-heart" murder. His trial is scheduled for Jan. 6. He also is charged with manslaughter, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office.
Prosecutors intended to call Porter to testify against the driver and another officer whose trial is slated to begin after Goodson's. The mistrial may complicate this strategy, since Porter has a Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, according to attorney Warren Alperstein.
E.T.A. It looks like that there is a Federal Investigation still going on into this case. From Wikipedia:
As of May 2015, Federal authorities were conducting three probes into Baltimore police, the "pattern of practice" investigation initiated by Lynch, a collaborative review which began in the fall of 2014, and a civil rights probe into the death of Gray.[77]
As I said the judge has ordered arguments for a new trail. Both the defense and prosecutors must be there to present their arguments.
I think the decision to retry the case is up to the prosecutor. I don't think the judge gets a say. There may be post-trial motions of some kind, but they are generally argued in open court -- not in chambers.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Never said that any riots are ever justified. In America we have the right to peaceably assemble. You are projecting your racist crap onto others. Going back to my original point it is that not buckling in a person in a automobile shows a serious lack of concern for human life.
I was asking what your point was in this specific quote.
No. Was there burning and looting when O.J. Simpson was acquitted?
What does this have to do with seat belts?
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.