trial that could be used against officer gordon and white, for instance. so i think that lends itself to fairness on a purely evidentiary level. . number two, i do think the judge judge billy, he may have more experience with judge barry williams so he would be able to tell us about him but i think we are in a position to have a fair judge. it is so important, melissa, i think to have a fair judge because that s where you get your rulings. if i am trying to put in evidence my prior relationship with freddie gray and the defense wants it in the prosecution doesn t, that s up to the judge to say, wait a minute, this is irrelevant, or it is relevant to the officer s state of mind when dealing with freddie gray. what do you think, mr. mur y murphy? is this a judge likely to make fair decisions? oh, absolutely. i ve known him since he was a baby prosecutor years ago and i followed his career all through
is also african-american, that this lots of things about baltimore are different. right? but like the speed with which this case we don t have charges in the tamir rice case, yet this one is already at trial. we talk about this in court sometimes. just because your client is black doesn t mean and the officer s black or the d.a. s black doesn t mean it is going to help you. it really doesn t. everybody s black in this case! so we can remove that issue. but we can t really. right? so on one hand everybody s black and yet it doesn t make race not an issue no, no, not at all. but at least in my experience, i think the judge sometimes determines the fairness of the proceeding and i am incredibly confident with this judge that we will have a fair trial. and this is important, because this judge used to prosecute police misconduct for