Justice Runs Amok 

As a follow-up to last night’s developments and the motion to dismiss, Judge Barry Williams admonished the Baltimore prosecutors office for another blatant Brady Violation yet allows the trial of officer Caesar Goodson to continue.
It is beyond ridiculous that over a year after prosecutors filed charges against the officers, and into the third trial of those six officers, the judge is telling the prosecution they have until Monday to ensure all of the evidence is finally disclosed to the defense.
Officer Caesar Goodson, 46, was the driver of the van used to transport Freddie Gray to Western District police headquarters.
The prosecution is claiming Goodson gave Freddie Gray a “rough ride”, meaning intentionally trying to harm Gray while he was in the transport van.   However, a second passenger in the van, Donta Allen, has previously disputed this accusation and stated the ride was “smooth” and uneventful.

(Via Baltimore Sun) […] Allen told police on April 12, the day of Gray’s arrest and seven days before he died, that Gray had been thrashing around and bashing his head into the partition that separates the van. Allen later publicly recanted, saying he only heard a faint tapping.

At the morning hearing prior to the trial, Williams determined that prosecutors had committed a violation by not disclosing a meeting they had with Allen in May 2015, in the presence of his attorney. The attorney disclosed the meeting to defense attorneys last week, who said it had been improperly withheld.

Schatzow told Williams that the meeting was unproductive, and said Allen maintained the validity of both versions of his story. He said prosecutors didn’t believe they were required to alert the defense to such a meeting.

Williams said Schatzow’s position was wrong, and concerned him about other information being withheld.

“I’m not saying you did anything nefarious. I’m saying you don’t understand what ‘exculpatory’ means,” Williams said, referring to the type of information prosecutors must disclose to the defense. “My concern becomes, what else is out there that you didn’t turn over?”

Williams, who has twice previously ruled that prosecutors failed to turn over information in the case, told prosecutors that they would have the weekend to review their cases and reveal anything that hasn’t been disclosed.

Williams told Schatzow he would hold Schatzow “personally accountable” for anything found, and said Schatzow and the State’s Attorney’s Office would face sanctions.  (read more)

Yeah right “would face sanctions“, gee does that sound familiar?
Judge Debra Nelson said the same thing in the Zimmerman trial when State Attorney Angela Corey withheld information about the identity of witness #8, Rachel Jeantel and withheld information from the phone of Trayvon Martin which entirely disputed the case against George Zimmerman.   Despite state attorney Corey flat out lying to the court, those sanctions never materialized after the acquittal.
The “sanctions” in the Baltimore Six trial will most certainly suffer a similar fate.