Freddie Gray Defense: Legally irrelevant whether Freddie’s knife was illegal

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Posted by Andrew Branca February 5, 2016 at 5:30pm

Files motion to keep out issue of legality of “spring-assisted” knife.

 

This week saw a flurry of motions from both the State prosecutors and defense counsel in preparation for the upcoming “Freddie Gray” trial of Baltimore Police Office Edward Nero, scheduled to begin February 22. These were primarily in limine motions, which are motions asking the court to exclude particular evidence from the trial, often because the evidence is arguably irrelevant or prejudicial.

 

One of these motions by Nero’s defense counsel, Marc Zayon

, asks the court to prohibit the State from presenting arguments and evidence about on the issue of the legality of the spring-assisted knife the arresting officers found in Freddie Gray’s pocket. (This motion is embedded at the bottom of this post.)