Freddie Gray Murder Trial Postponed: Report

BALTIMORE, MD — The Maryland Court of Appeals has reportedly postponed the trial for Officer Caesar Goodson, one of six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray.

Goodson’s trial was to begin Monday with jury selection in Baltimore City.

However, the Court of Special Appeals ruled that the trial would be postponed due to a pending appeal in the case, according to The Baltimore Sun.

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The appeal concerned one officer being compelled to testify in Goodson’s trial, which the officer’s attorney argued was a violation of his Fifth Amendment right.

The attorney for Officer William Porter filed a request in the Maryland court Thursday asking for an injunction after a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge ordered him to testify.

A Maryland appellate judge stayed the order, which pertains to the case of Officer Goodson, who faces the most serious charges among the six officers going to trial: second-degree depraved heart murder.

Gray, a 25-year-old Baltimore man, was arrested, then taken on a 44-minute ride in a police van around west Baltimore after which he was hospitalized. He died a week later, on April 19, 2015, from what prosecutors alleged were spinal injuries suffered in the police van.

Goodson was the driver of the van.

After Gray’s funeral in late April, riots erupted in parts of Baltimore, requiring the National Guard to help quell the unrest.

Days later, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced charges against the following six officers: Officer William Porter, Officer Caesar Goodson, Sgt. Alicia White, Officer Garrett Miller, Officer Edward Nero and Lt. Brian Rice.

The first to be tried was Porter, whose case ended in a mistrial last month.