trial, any trial, a judge reads a credibility charge and tells the jurors what to take into account, whether they believe someone or don t believe someone. in addition to conflicting statements that we discuss, there s going to be a new statement that he tells on the stand, which will be another mess. then they ll have his prior convictions and his criminal history. so the jurors are going to probably discount what he says altogether. perhaps. arthur. not necessarily. they re going to disregard him. i disagree with arthur. it s going to hurt the prosecutors. let me tell you why. i ve been in the scenario. they re going to call him as their witness. as a defense lawyer, i m going to have him popping in two places before he takes the stand. i m going to ask the officer who wrote the report and say you understand how important it is to be detailed and accurate, especially in a homicide investigation. absolutely. when he told you the following, you never would have written that unl
have been charged with assault. four of them are also charged with involuntary manslaughter. officer goodson, the driver of the van is the only officer charged with second degree murder. prosecutors have now turned over 300,000 pieces of evidence. that s 52 gigabytes of digital files, the equivalent of 26 hours of high definition video. among the evidence are statements from 15 civilian witnesses, four surveillance videos four cell phone videos, blood samples from the back of the police van and 8,000 pages of the accused officers e-mails. defense attorneys are calling for a change of venue because they claim the officers cannot receive a fair and impartial trial in the city of baltimore, saying the state s attorney marilyn mosby, made prejudicial public statements like this. to the youth of this city, i will seek justice on your behalf. this is a moment this is your
shackle him and the bigger thing is 15 daisy think before they were told you have to seat belt him. four. four days before. you re right. in a 15-page document. there s no proof these officers were, in fact told about it. it s a policy went out. it was a 15-page memo four days before. again, it s their lack of action here that i see mark. let me ask you this. these guys are charged with assault. what is the assault the arresting officers committed against freddie gray? the placing of the leg shackles the placing of the handcuffs? what is it? megyn, i looked up the maryland law on assault. there is something about placing someone in imminent danger unlike where we unlike what we learned in law school, it has to be a touching for the assault. in new york, we have a menacing. back to the same thing we discussed. putting him in there without the seat belt. let s move on. cesar goodson, he s the driver of the van, most severely charged.
second-degree murder. listen there is no evidence that there was a so-called rough ride and so far it looks like that s been admitted by the state that officer goodson s charges relate to the fact he had somebody in the back that they re going to argue was in distress and he didn t get him help mark. megyn, if you believe everything and certainly i question a lot of the evidence. if you believe everything they re saying give the prosecutors every benefit of the doubt. at worst, you have negligence. you don t have recklessness. there is a difference between the two. one requires a willful and wanton disregard of human life or property which means if he were to slam on his brakes and give that guy a rough ride, give the prosecutors a reckless. short of that it s overcharged. arthur? i wouldn t say it s negligence. negligence is when you don t mean to do something, you make a mistake. if he said i m going to give him a rough ride and intentionally there s our information
he wound up hospitalized and died a week later. on the day of his funeral, the city of baltimore exploded. police were attacked homes were burned businesses looted. pharmacies and liquor stores specifically targeted. in the middle of all this the city decides to hit the six cops who handled freddie gray with a list of charges ranging from assault to second degree murder. to the people of baltimore and the demonstrators across america, i heard your call for no justice, no peace. your peace is sincerely needed as i work to deliver justice on behalf of this young man. in recent days, we ve had a closer look at what s behind those charges. the evidence the autopsy and a key witness who has changed his story. we begin tonight with trace gallagher, live in our west coast newsroom. trace? megyn prior to the freddie gray case baltimore police agreed to help mosby crackdown on the drug infested areas. on april 212 lt when they made eye contact with freddie gray, gray took off ru