A Maryland appeals court has delayed the trial of the police van driver charged in the death of Freddie Gray.
Jury selection had been set to start Monday in Baltimore in the trial of Caesar Goodson. He's the second of six officers scheduled for trial. The manslaughter trial of Officer William Porter ended in December with a hung jury.
Goodson's case has been complicated after a judge ruled last week that Porter must testify against Goodson, despite Porter's claim that he has a right not to incriminate himself. A state appeals court has temporarily blocked that ruling while its judges consider whether to uphold that decision.
Gray died in April from a broken neck he suffered during a van ride.
Goodson was with Freddie Gray for every second of his 45-minute trip from the site of his arrest to the Western District police station, where Gray arrived critically injured and unresponsive. But Goodson's account of what happened on that day remains a mystery. He's the only one of six officers charged in Gray's death not to speak to investigators.
Goodson faces the most serious charge of all six officers: second-degree "depraved-heart" murder. To be convicted, prosecutors must prove that Goodson was so callous in his disregard for Gray's life that he deliberately allowed him to die.
