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Baltimore: Trials of Officers Charged in Freddie Gray’s Death on Hold

HeadlineFeb 19, 2016

In Baltimore, the trials of six officers charged in the death of African-American man Freddie Gray have been put on hold. A family attorney says Gray’s spine was “80 percent severed at his neck” from fatal injuries in police custody in April. The six officers were supposed to go to court this winter. But after a jury failed to reach a decision in the first case, brought against officer William Porter, all the other trials have been delayed over the issue of whether Porter should be compelled to testify before his own case is retried. On Thursday, Maryland’s court of appeals said all trials are on hold until a court hearing on March 3 over Porter’s testimony. The court could then take months to issue a decision.

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