In another blow to Black Lives Matter and the political aspirations of Marilyn Mosby, the judge hearing the case against Cesar Goodson on charges of second-degree depraved-heart murder, assault, manslaughter, reckless endangerment, misconduct in office and two counts of vehicular manslaughter. The prosecution tried to prove that Goodson gave Gray what is known as a rough ride, but the judge ruled that the prosecution could not produce any evidence that the accusation was true
This is a huge blow to the prosecution because this was the case they thought they had the best chance of winning. With this decision, it becomes apparent that Mosby made a political decision and not one based on law or evidence. The prosecution’s expert witness, former Baltimore City police commander Stanford Franklin couldn’t say for sure that the driver gave Gray a rough ride. That was the only thing the prosecution had and when Franklin admitted under cross examination that he had no way of knowing whether Gray was given a “rough ride”, the prosecution’s entire case went down the drain.
It now seems unlikely that any of the officers will be convicted in Freddie Gray’s death. It also confirms what many legal experts, including Harvard professor, Alan Dershowitz said at the time, that there wasn’t a case at all.
“When the prosecution decided that that was going to be the horse they were going to ride, and that case started breaking down, and started falling apart,” Maryland attorney and George Washington University Law Lecturer Wayne Cohen told The Daily Caller News Foundation prior to the ruling. He added that the evidence the prosecution presented didn’t add up.
“If they can’t prove that, they can’t prove anything,” local Baltimore attorney Steve Silverman, who is not representing anyone in the case, told TheDCNF before the ruling. “The whole point is they put him in the back of a paddy wagon and they roughed him up and that’s why he died. If you can’t even prove causation for the basic theory of the case for the driver of the vehicle and the injury then how can you prove all these ancillary officers did something wrong?”
As I wrote the day Mosby announced the indictments…………..it’s all political.