A judge is refusing to dismiss charges against a Baltimore police officer on trial for murder in the death of a black prisoner whose neck was broken in a police transport van.
Judge Barry Williams made the ruling to move forward with the case Thursday, a day after prosecutors rested their case and defense attorneys filed to dismiss the charges.
Defense attorneys argued that prosecutors failed to prove that Officer Caesar Goodson, the van driver, gave Freddie Gray a "rough ride" that caused his injury.
But prosecutors contended that there was enough evidence to move forward. They say Goodson had multiple chances to put Gray in a seatbelt, instead of leaving him handcuffed and shackled on the floor of the van.
Goodson's attorneys will now move ahead with their defense, on the sixth day of trial.
