BALTIMORE (AP) - Medical Examiner Carol Allan testified that she determined Freddie Gray's death in police custody was a homicide in part because he lacked the "extreme force" required to snap his own neck.
As the first prosecution witness in the manslaughter trial of Police Lt. Brian Rice, Allan said that "if a seat belt had been used, then the type of injury Mr. Gray sustained would not have occurred."
She did clarify that her homicide determination "is a definition that has no standing, legally," and that it simply means "death at the hands of another."
