he didn t buckle him. in. he said he lifted him up off the floor and didn t buckle him in. he said he didn t because he was afraid that freddie gray would grab his weapon and he was worried about his safety. so he have a hung jury here. waiting to hear from the judge what that means but it looks like it s a major defeat for the state. what happens going forward? we have five more cases. they were hoping that if they got a guilty verdict in this case, that they would use him, they would get him to testify against the other defendants. the next case, cesar goodson, the driver, that s critical. he is the one charged with the most serious crimes in the death of freddie gray. now, just to give you a sense of when s going on here on the ground. there s a helicopter above. we do know various agencies, local and state have officers that are located around the city ready to activate as it were depending on what happens in, you know, in response to this
and so the theory here would be that a conviction on any of the charges against william porter would have strengthened the case against caesar goodson, who would be the next officer to go to trial. so that was the prosecution s strategy here. and you also had really important questions of where this case would be tried, whether it be in the city of baltimore, which is 2/3 african american, or whether moved to the county, which william porter s attorneys tried to do. the county, less diverse than the city. the jury is majority african american. i believe there were two white women on the jury, two white men on the jury. the rest of the jury, african american men and women. that s important, because when you talk to jury consultants, jury makeup, in cases involving law enforcement and african americans, jury makeup can be
she s the one that prosecuted this case we re watching now. there s been a mistrial. the jury hung on all counts. we won t be hearing from her, right? because ari melber was reporting earlier that there s a so-called gag order in place, saying that no one can talk until the completion of all six trials of the various officers who are charged. exactly. the prosecutor could have, i guess tried them together or tried more than one officer at a time. they made the decision to charge them one at a time, so the gag order extends through all six potential trials. we have to wait and see if a new trial is mounted a new case is mounted against william porter, but, we were looking for caesar goodson, who is the officer who faces the most serious charges. he was actually the van driver. so no comments from the prosecutor s office. that s what we expect when we re looking at a scene like this. we ve been through lots of scenes like this, where you
ultimately his death, that this was a closely watched case. but the prosecution didn t carry the burden. why? i think looking back at the trial, officer porter s testimony in his own words was critical. this was a case about what happened inside that van. no one really knows what happened inside that van. mr. gray, who sustained those spinal injuries, he s dead. he s not here to talk about it. there have been a lot of discussions about it. and the prosecution made an argument that officer porter was among several officers who was deliberately trying to injure mr. gray, which ultimately resulted in the death. but officer porter told a very different story, one of a night where he was doing what he always does. no, he does not always belt in individuals or suspects when they re in the back of the van. no, he does not always call for medical care unless he deems it necessary and at the time, in that moment, he did not. not because he had any issue with mr. gray, not because he didn t hurt
in a hung jury that they would, then in that case you might see a request to try to change the schedule. in other words, this was a complex case of multiple defendants, regarding the same underlying incident. we are not there yet. it is unfolding and i think in baltimore and the country people watching closely as we learn more and one thing to happen is the prosecution could say, okay, that is hung jury. that doesn t mean we lost. we didn t carry the burden. we want to restart with the new jury. we want to start from scratch and we want to delay the other trials and one of the things that they could request. again, the goodson trial, the second officer on more serious charges, up for second-degree murder, was january 6, so you would as adam reporting from baltimore, you would have to delay that and set this out. so i think, kate, we have a legal schedule here that s now very much in doubt based on the strategy they set and then we have a larger public discussion because we have to watc