Baltimore Six Trail – Judge Williams Issues Gag Order, Gives Mosby Two Weeks To Produce Dontae Allen Statements…
Posted on October 14, 2015 by sundance
The lede is buried in this WBAL story and totally absent in the Baltimore Sun story. Prosecution witness Dontae Allen is in federal custody in New York – Wait, wha.. huh?
The revelation surfaces as Judge Barry Williams ponders sanctions against prosecutor Marilyn Mosby for attempting to hide statements by Allen which would seem to vindicate the Baltimore Six officers. Allen previously stated he heard Freddie Gray trying to injure himself inside the police transport vehicle; Mosby tried to hide the statements.
Perhaps this is why Judge Williams has now placed a gag-order on the entire case barring the State Attorney and defense attorneys from discussing the case in the media. The gag order will be finalized Wednesday (TODAY).
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mosby going to courtBALTIMORE – Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams is imposing a gag order on prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Freddie Gray case.
“I do not want you discussing my orders with anyone…except your clients and your experts,” Williams told lawyers at the end of today’s proceedings.
A formal order will be filed tonight.
It is not clear which attorneys the judge may have been targeting in issuing the order, but it came after attorneys for Officer William Porter asked the judge to force the state to turn over further evidence the case.
The judge did that. Porter himself did grant an interview to the Washington Post last month, and is set to go on trial at the end of next month.
Motions hearings scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed.
paul gardner 9 donta allen cnnJudge Williams is giving the prosecution until October 28 to turn over evidence, including statements from Dontae Allen, who was transported in the same van a Gray, and who claimed he saw Gray move.
Allen is now in federal custody in New York
The judge will allow statements that five of the six officers gave police to be admitted as evidence at the officers’ trials.
Judge Williams this afternoon, rejected a defense motion filed by the attorney for Officer William Porter, to suppress the statement.
The judge ruled that Porter’s statement was voluntary and did not violate his rights under the U.S. Constitution or Maryland’s Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights.
That decision was handed down hours after the judge rejected a similar request, by the attorneys for Sgt. Alicia White. (read more)
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