Associated Press
BALTIMORE — The trial against a Baltimore police officer facing charges stemming from the arrest and subsequent death of Freddie Gray resumed Thursday with a brief appearance by a medical examiner.
Officer Edward Nero, whose trial began Thursday, is facing assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment charges.
Prosecutors say Nero and two other officers illegally arrested Gray, and were negligent when they failed to buckle him into a seat belt.
Nero’s attorney counters that his client wasn’t involved in Gray’s arrest, and that it was the wagon driver’s responsibility to seat belt the prisoner.
Gray died April 19 of last year, a week after his neck was broken in the back of a police transport van.
Prosecutors on Monday called to the stand their 12th witness, the assistant medical examiner who performed Gray’s autopsy. Dr. Carol Allan was on the stand only minutes — long enough to enter into evidence a copy of Gray’s autopsy report over an objection from Nero’s attorney.
Prosecutors have indicated they plan to call Officer Garrett Miller, who is awaiting trial on the same charges as Nero, to testify against him.
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