The jury was sent home late Tuesday morning as Judge Barry Williams prepared to settle what he termed "legal issues," including a routine defense motion to dismiss based on a lack of evidence to proceed. That motion was denied.
Gray died April 19, one week after being injured in a police transport van after he was arrested. His death sparked protests and riots in the city. Porter is charged with second degree assault, involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office. The prosecution has been presenting its case since Wednesday afternoon.
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From what I have read - they didn't make much of a case.....maybe there wasn't much of a real case to make and this is all simply show for the animals!
ReplyDeletethe city will still be looted no matter what
ReplyDeleteI got the impression from the article that the defense was trying to place the responsibility to strap a prisoner in on the arresting officers.
ReplyDeletePorters on the stand now. He came after a renowned medical expert testified, Dr DiMaio. DiMaio spent 25 yrs as chief ME, autopsied Lee Harvey Oswald. Wrote several books on forensics some considered *the* books on forensics. He testified for defense in the Geo Zimmerman trial. He's considered one of the best experts on gunshot wounds. Said Gray's injury was so severe that the moment it happened he wouldn't have been able to move, talk, breath. Goes to state saying injury happened between 2-4 stop. At all stops including 5th Gray was in different position. DiMaio saying would have been impossible for Gray to be on his knees head on bench at 5th stop after being found on floor on 4th stop. In other words he would never have been able to pull himself up quadriplegic by then
ReplyDeletestate just concluded cross of Porter. veteran defense attorneys who watched the testimony said state was "quibbling" in trying to press on inconsistencies in Porters testimony.
ReplyDeleteVery telling is the state's failure to bring in any of the medical personnel who worked on Gray while he was in U of MD Shock Trauma.
ReplyDeleteThe 'expert' they did bring in was someone unheard of from Missouri who testified that Gray would have lived if he had received care sooner. He based his testimony off of autopsy records. It makes you wonder how many experts were consulted before they found one who would say this.
On the other hand the defense's expert is renowned in the field of forensics and he said Gray would have been dead within a minute of the injury and he would not have been able to move, talk or breath. When pressed on cross about this, he said it would have been "impossible." Experts never ever leave them selves open and say things like impossible, never, etc because all state has to do is find one person who has moved, talked and continued to breath w/such an injury to totally discredit the witness.
Why does he always have a cup in his hands?
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