Thread: Jury deadlocked in Baltimore black police officer's trial

Tue Dec 15, 2015 3:48pm EST

Jury deadlocked in Baltimore police officer's trial

BALTIMORE

Baltimore Police officer William Porter approaches the court House in Baltimore, Maryland, November 30, 2015. Porter is one of six Baltimore City police officer charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray.
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A Baltimore jury is deadlocked in the trial of police officer William Porter, charged in the death of black detainee Freddie Gray, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams said on Tuesday.

Williams received a note from jurors and ordered them to keep deliberating. Porter, 26, is charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office over Gray's death from a broken neck in April.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ba...0TY2SL20151215

Mistrial declared in first Freddie Gray case as jurors deadlock on all counts

Published December 16, 2015 FoxNews.com

DEVELOPING -- The judge announced a mistrial Wednesday in the case of the first officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray, after jurors in Baltimore announced they could not reach a unanimous decision.

Jurors deadlocked on all four counts: manslaughter, assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office. After notifying Circuit Judge Barry Williams, he dismissed them, saying, "You have taken the time to listen."

Wednesday marked the third day of deliberations in the case of William Porter, one of six officers charged in Gray's death.

Three black men, four black women, two white men and three white women made up the jury.

A re-trial date will be set Thursday.

Prosecutors say Porter is partly responsible for failing to buckle Gray into a seatbelt and for not calling an ambulance when Gray indicated he was in distress.

Porter told jurors that he didn't think Gray was injured and that it was the van driver's responsibility to fasten Gray's seat belt.

A small group of protesters was seen chanting outside the courthouse chanting "no justice, no peace," after the judge declared the mistrial.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/16...cing-deadlock/