{"id":181447,"date":"2016-06-23T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/23\/marilyn-mosby-your-ada-is-trying-to-lose-these-cases\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T02:13:00","slug":"marilyn-mosby-your-ada-is-trying-to-lose-these-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/23\/marilyn-mosby-your-ada-is-trying-to-lose-these-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn Mosby, Your ADA is Trying to Lose These Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The officer most responsible for the death of Freddie Gray, Caesar Goodson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/freddie-gray\/bs-md-ci-goodson-verdict-20160623-story.html\">has been acquitted after a mindbogglingly inept attempt at prosecution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Baltimore judge acquitted the police officer facing the most serious charges in the death of Freddie Gray on Thursday, delivering a broad rebuke of a case that he said lacked evidence.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., 46, drove the transport van in which Gray sustained fatal injuries. He is the second officer cleared in the high-profile case. Four other officers could still face trial.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">After an eight-day bench trial, Circuit Judge Barry Williams found Goodson not guilty on charges that included second-degree depraved-heart murder and three counts of manslaughter.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The acquittal cast doubt on the remaining criminal cases in which the other officers face similar but lesser charges. Legal observers said Baltimore State&#8217;s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who drew widespread praise and also condemnation after charging the officers in May 2015, must now re-evaluate the remaining cases. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My guess is that this guy was looking at getting a PBA endorsement when he runs against Mosby for DA.<\/p>\n<p>This is disgraceful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officer most responsible for the death of Freddie Gray, Caesar Goodson has been acquitted after a mindbogglingly inept attempt at prosecution: A Baltimore judge acquitted the police officer facing the most serious charges in the death of Freddie Gray on Thursday, delivering a broad rebuke of a case that he said lacked evidence.Officer Caesar &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,970,969,972,1041,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}