Transcripts For CNNW The Situation Room 20150521 : compareme

Transcripts For CNNW The Situation Room 20150521

Found on a pizza crust puts police on his trail. Kim unveiled. An insider takes us behind the scenes of a brutal and most dangerous regime on earth. Like its like a personal kingdom for kim jongun. Wolf blitzer is on vacation. Im Brianna Keilar. Youre in the situation room. Cnn breaking news we have breaking news. New developments in the investigation of baltimores freddie gray death in custody case. This specifically pertains to the grand jury. States attorney Marilyn Mosby about to hold a news conference. Were standing by to bring that to you live. Correspondents analysts and guests also standing by with full coverage and i want to go first now to cnns Miguel Marquez, hes 0 in baltimore. Miguel, tell us what were learning. A sense of what to expect from Marilyn Mosby when she begins . Reporter we do. Were in the room where the press conference will be held any moment now. The Baltimore States attorney Marilyn Mosby we believe will announce the grand jury has come back with charges. We dont know how many or against which Police Officers those charges exist. The one thing that is significant about this is that on the 27th, next week were supposed to have the first hearing in this case. That now given this new development wont go forward and it will be a new process for moving forward. Marilyn mosby coming under great pressure from the police union here in baltimore, from Police Officers and many people from across the country, what they say is her handling of this case. If she comes back with charges from the grand jury, clearly, this will change the trajectory of this case. Would give her a much sort of shorer foot to stand on as they move forward with this very very difficult case. Brianna . All right, miguel. We are standing by with you. Were going to discuss what were expecting here and get back to you in a moment when this does get underway. Joining me now in the situation room to talk a little more about this we have cnn Law Enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. Cnn correspondent brian todd our justice reporter evan perez. Anchor don lemon and we are going right back to baltimore where officials are walking into that room and we will discuss it as we come out of this news conference. Heres Marilyn Mosby. As i previously indicated my Office Conducted an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the tragic incident with the death of freddie gray. On may 1st our investigation revealed we had sufficient probable cause to bring charges against six Police Officers. As our investigation has continued Additional Information has been discovered and as is often the case during an Ongoing Investigation charges can and should be revised based upon the evidence. These past two weeks my team that been presenting evidence to a grchand jury that just today returned indictments against all six officers for are the following offenses. Officer Cesar Goodson jr. , seconddegree depraved heart murder. Involuntary manslaughter. Seconddegree negligent assault. Manslaughter by vehicle and gross negligence. Man slaughter by vehicle, criminal negligence. Misconduct in office for failure to perform a duty regarding safety of a prisoner. Reckless endangerment. Officer William Porter involuntary manslaughter. Seconddegree negligent assault. Misconduct in office for failure to perform a duty regarding the safety of a prisoner and Reckless Endangerment. Lieutenant brian rice involuntary manslaughter. Seconddegree negligent assault. Misconduct in office for failure to perform a duty regarding safety of a prisoner and an illegal arrest. Reckless endangerment. Officer edward nero Second Degree intentional assault. Misconduct in office for an illegal arrest, misconduct in office for failure to perform a duty regarding safety of a prisoner and Reckless Endangerment. Officer Garrett Miller seconddegree intentional assault. Misconduct in office for an illegal arrest. Misconduct in office for failure to perform a duty regarding the safety of a prisoner and Reckless Endangerment. Sergeant alicia white, involuntary manslaughter. Seconddegree negligent assault. Misconduct in office for failure to perform a duty regarding safety of a prisoner and Reckless Endangerment. Now that the grand jury has also found probable cause to charge the aforementioned officers based upon the evidence these officers who are presumed innocent until Proven Guilty are now scheduled to be arraigned on july 2nd. Thank you. Thank you all. Will you recuse yourself from this case states toirn Marilyn Mosby there in baltimore making some big news. Not taking questions there, but this of course pertaining to the death of freddie gray in Police Custody. I want to go ahead and bring in first don lemon. Youre listening to this. We learned that these six officers don, have been indicted. In a that a grand jury said there is evidence to go ahead ap and arraign them. Right . So how big of a deal is this . Is this what we expected . This is a big deal. Many expected it would change because as previously as migel pointed out, Marilyn Mosby has been under significant pressure regarding the charges. Many saying her statements did not support the charges. She is saying having now done that independent investigation since 51, now she has sufficient cause to indict these officers Additional Information, she said came in. The charges had been revised in some way and shes saying now that Cesar Goodson, secretarydegree depraved heart, some have been revised somewhat but mostly the same charges. Still very serious charges, and that seconddegree depraved heart murder is the most serious one of them all. Again, shes now saying she has sufficient evidence. There was a bit of a controversy earlier in the week regarding the knife. According to city officials, according to City Police Office folks representing Police Officers saying that the knife was illegal. Therefore, making the arrest legal. The knife illegal, making the arrest legal. She said the knife was legal, making the arrest illegal. And so then came back last week and said it was not that important when it came to the indictment and the chashlgrges against these officers. All six officers now indicted july 2nd, they will be arraigned. That is big news. Thats serious news brianna. Justice reporter evan perez. You were listening to these charges, and what the grand jury has said about them. So actually the grand jury changed, they found evidence of greater charges . Well she changed some of the charges, and really what the grand jury does is bring the charges that the state prosecutor asks them to bring. Theyre not operating on their own. Theyre bringing charges that shes asking. And she adjusted. Thats what she said its often charges are revised based on the evidence. Clearly, brianna, shes heard the criticism about the knife. Heard criticism that under maryland law, she was saying the knife was legal. These officers had no reason to arrest or to pursue freddie gray. And so what shes done now is that shes made it more about the conduct of the officers with regard to the transportation of the, of freddie gray in the prisoner van. Also in their treatment of him, and so what shes now made it less about the knife and more about what they did, whether they rendered aid properly to him which obviously they did not, because he died, and so now the seconddegree murder depraved heart murder against the driver of the van. That remains, thats the most serious charge but the most significant thing thats happened now is that she has made it less about this controversy over the knife are and more about the failure to render aid to freddie gray and causing his death, because they simply did not treat him properly. I want to bring in senator ben cardin of maryland. Senator, this happening in your state. You i hope you were able to hear the press conference that Marilyn Mosby just gave. Certainly youve been able to hear some of the analysis here so far and the explanations of it. Whats your reaction to what you heard . Well i dont think were surprised. The states attorney made the presentation to the grand jury. Its now up to the criminal Justice System to deal with these issues as the states attorney said the officers have a presumption of innocence. I dont think any of us are surprised by todays announcement. What were doing in baltimore, we started a healing process, and yesterday we had a meeting at the white house with our congressional delegation looking at ways that we can help baltimore rebuild, not only the businesses that were destroyed and damaged, but also the core problems in our city. So i know that were all very much focused on making sure theres justice. Justice for freddie gray. And i think the states attorney today brought forward what was expected and now its up to our court system to process this. Marilyn moses buyby senator, has been some critics, especially in the corner of some of these officers their lawyers, is really what im talking about, theyve criticized her saying theres a conflict of interest. Whether that her husband is a City Council Member in the ward where freddie gray lived 0or whether its that she appeared after the riot at a concert onstage with prince, or that she has talked to vogue magazine and some critics say that this is sort of a chance for her to capitalize in a way that helps her career. What do you say to those critics who say theres a conflict of interest . Well i think the states attorney has brought forward, with the information she had, did an independent investigation. Shes brought forward her best judgment as to proceedings. We will see what happens in the courts, but i think that its not unusual for those who have been charged with crimes to take a look at how objective the person whos in the States Attorney Office may be butality the end of the day the people of baltimore want justice for freddie gray. They want our Police Department and our community to work together. So we understand we have problems. Now its up to the court system and i dont think its about any one person including the states attorney. Its about justice prevailing and its about the officers having their right of presumption of innocence, but also theres a responsibility and we want to make sure that the court system works. Do you think the officers i wonder actually let me ask you this the atf released at this point several screen shots of suspects that they think intentionally set several fires in baltimore during the riots. Do you have any information who they might be looking for . Are these believed to be local residents . We dont know. We know that at least initially the violence and damage in our community had something to do about trying to find drugs. We also know that there was a small group of people that participated in the looting. We know that there were tens of thousands of marylanders who took to streets in a responsible way, to try to preserve peace and order in our city. We love baltimore. And we obviously want to find out what happened. We want to make sure theres justice, but we also want to make sure that our citys future is moving forward in the right way and thats what we did yesterday in the white house with secretaries of major departments at the federal level to help rebuild our city. Senator ben cardin of maryland. Thanks so much for chatting with us, really appreciate it. Thank you. I want to bring in cnn legal analyst, i should say hln legal analyst joey jackson. Joey you watched this press conference and now what were seeing is something that comes out of some criticism, and debate back and forth, over the last days. This issue of the knife that freddie gray was carrying when he was arrested. Is it a legal knife . Is it an ill leaf knifeegal knife . Does it really matter. Seems Marilyn Mosby going in the direction of you know what . Whether that knife was legal or illegal or the arrest was legal or illegal, the concentration certainly rhetorically more on how he was treated once in custody . It appears so. Good evening, brianna. Absolutely. We should talk about what an indictment is all about. Understand as defense lawyers love to point out, an indictment is an accusation. What it really means, there were 23 members assembled and we all should keep in mind the states attorney is the one who delivered that evidence. In the grand jury they conduct the whole proceeding. There is no judge, no defense attorney. And theres no real crossexamination as to the witnesses, and so what the states attorney did was present the evidence just enough evidence brianna, to establish that theres probable cause to believe that a crime was committed, and that these specific officers committed it. And so based upon that presentation the grand jury of which there are 23 a majority of which, not unanimous like a trial jury but a majority. That is 12 of the 23 we dont know the count in the grand jury but theyve concluded that theres probable cause to believe a crime committed and they committed it. In terms of the issue of the knife. Is it significant . Of course. Every bit of evidence is significant but it moves the discussion away from was the knife legal, illegal, was he falsely imprisoned too . Hes dead. What was the cause of that . Was there criminal negligence involveded . Grand jury believes yes and as for the driver more than criminal negligence failing to perceive 0 a risk carelessness. They believe depravity. That is you knew someone was dying and what did you do . You went and sought another passenger to get in the car instead of assisting the partner or rather freddie gray who was in there. So a lot of it will be unveiled as we move forward. You said with depraved. They must have known somebody was dying, especially what theyre saying. Could it be you knew somebody was hurt not just gravely injured . Well it has to can do with the gravity of the injury because in the event, brianna, someone is simply ailing and you dont believe that ailing to be significant, then it doesnt move the needle to the charge of depraved indifference. Because, remember what needs to be established, what needs to be established is a that you knew that this person was under serious distress. You knew this person needed dire medical attention, and you just didnt care. Why . Because you were inhumane. You lacked compassion. That you lacked all Human Emotion to actually assist them. So it has to be more than oh they may have needed some help. You knew they needed help and went and picked up another passenger instead of renderingaid and it took you 40 minutes instead are the two minutes to get to the precinct. A lot will be said moving forward. The attorneys for the defense, and coming up we know theres an arraignment, where the officers will be officially apprised of what the charges are. There may be change. The conditions or there may not be change certainly the defense will have an opportunity to dispute the evidence moving forward. Joey well talk more ahead. Everyone stand by. Getting a lot more information into the situation room on this indictment of the six officers in the freddie gray case. We will have much more breaking news after this quick break. The citi double cash card. It earns you cash back now and cash back later. With 1 when you buy and 1 as you pay. With two ways to earn on purchases, it makes a lot of other cards seem onesided. Every Auto Insurance policy has a number. But not every Insurance Company understands the life behind it. Those who have served our nation have earned the very best service in return. Usaa. We know what it means to serve. 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