Today in the trial of William Porter. The first of Six Police Officers to be charged in connection with the death of freddie gray. The defense rested its case on friday. Reporter Andrew Spencer has the latest. Prosecutors argue officer William Porter ignored pleas for help because the he did not care about freddie grays life. doug colbert university of maryland law professor the prosecution has presented evidence that went far beyond what the public expected, and thats what makes their case very strong. Over the last two weeks, theyve also argued porter went against Department Policy by not securing gray properly in the back of a Baltimore Police transport van. Porters defense has said the opposite arguing standard protocol was to not use seat belts. Theyve tried to pin responsibility on the vans driver, caesar goodson. warren brown attorney and courtroom observer i just dont see where the state has convinced anyone that beyond a reasonable doubt that simplynot belting him in when it w
Counts of driving under the influence. Resulti ng in serious bodily injury. Abc 9s lukas voss met with victims family today. Lukas . In thank you deborah. It was the Early Morning hours of january 19th, 2014. Tami allison got a call. The call that nobody wants to get. There has been an accident. Your two daughters are involved. From there its blank. For some. Charges and the nearing of a sentencing brings closure. For tami. Its the opposit. Sot it was very emotionally draining on all of us and it was hard. It was reliving the accident really. Vo the accident that changed tamis life forever. Her daughter Tiffany Schmitt was killed. At the hands of a drunk driver. The unthinkable happened and it struck without warning. Its always somebody else. You never think its going to happen to someone in your family, especially your children. And to tami. Preventing what happened to her is as call a friend or a family. Its not worth the risk. Its not worth the risk. Tiffany. Or just affectionaly ca
Ree rotary Facebook Page. So a couple of months ago i said. You know what . Of course, ive never done facebook before so im going to ahead and put a fecbook page together show the activites of people helping people all around the world. And what is has done is it has brought peoplefrom around the world. Different cultures, religions, and political sides together, said harrington. People from various backgrounds and ages have saught out the Facebook Page to either reach out for help or to volunteer a lending hand. Harrington says some of the misfortunes that are posted on the page sometimes are not broadcasted through mainstream media. We dont see many of them that occur in the United States just because the media doesnt pick it up, but i pick it up so i see all these things going on around the world and people needing help and so what i do is i just tell all my friends around the world, hey, this country is suffering right now in this particular community. This area and and they need h
Much of the information about the americanborn shooter syed farook is coming from his friend Enrique Marquez. Mary maloney has the details. The fbi says nothing related to the San Bernardino mass shooting has been found in a local lake. Officials have been trawling the murky water for four days. So far, they havent uncovered anything that will help the investigation. But theyre going to keep searching theyre especially interested in finding a hard drive that is missing from the shooters home. Today marks the third anniversary of the shooting at sandy hook elementary school, in newtown connecticut. Twentysix people were killed, 20 children and six educators. This is the First Anniversary on which newtowns students will be in school. The gunman, adam school with a semi automatic rifle. He committed suicide as Police Closed in. Yesterday marked one month since 130 people were killed in the paris terrorist attacks. People paid tribute to the victims outside the bataclan concert hall, where
It violates a lot of the things we think about our country meanwhile the democratic race is also heating up vermont senator Bernie Sanders now topping secretary Hillary Clinton in a recent New Hampshire poll. And while he continues to draw policy distinctions with clinton, on saturday sanders saved his sharpest jabs. For the republican frontrunner. S Bernie Sanders d president ial candidate trump and other demagogues are trying to divide this country that is disgusting that is unacceptable and as a nation we must reject it. And in a recent nbc news wall street journal poll there are some changes near the top. Texas senator ted cruz has surged into second place, up 12points to 22percent. Florida senator marco rubio is in third place. Up four points to 15percent. And doctor ben carson has fourth place with 11 percent. The republican president ial candidates will faceoff in debate this tuesday night in las vegas. Cnn has just released the final lineup for the primetime event. Joining the