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Here. >> this is what we do. >> one of the inmates now facing disciplinary action for the pruno is robin vongushon. >> christmas was coming. time to celebrate. get a little tipsy. >> vongushon was originally convicted six years earlier for a brutal assault. >> i knocked two people out. i broke somebodys jaw 18 places. i broke -- broke his face basically. >> vongushon is back in santa rita on a parole violation, the latest of 17 violations he says he has had since his assault conviction. this tim...

From the initial charges. this is what i suspect. the false part of the imprisonment was based on the knife. ms. mosby, and im sure you remember from that initial conference, said that freddy gray was not carrying an illegal knife. that remains in concontention. because she said it was a switchblade knife, which is not illegal in maryland. but the police never said it was a switchblade. they said it had an automatic spring which actually is illegal under baltimore city law. to remove any issue w...

Because it was not a switchblade knife. >> is it possible they both could be correct? >> well i mean ultimately the issue is going to be one, is the knife a spring-assisted knife or a switchblade knife? thats why motions were filed to inspect the evidence this week. and number two, even if it were that this knife was legal, if the officers had a good-faith basis to believe that the knife was legal, then again, how do you charge a police officer when they did that? the next layer is the back-up o...

I think some of the political statements the prosecutor made are not help. its hard hard here hard in staten island for them not to be political. they need to confine it to facts and legal issues that will come up in the case. >> reporter: do you think she was too strong in her statement the fact the initial reason they went after gray was because police said he had a switchblade knife which according to her evidence he did not? he had a lawful pocket knife under maryland law. >> lets be absolut...

Death a week after he suffered a spinal injury following an april 12 arrest. cell phone video of the arrest -- and i want to warn you that it is disturbing -- shows police officers pinning gray to the ground and place him in handcuffs. gray with his legs hanging limply is dragged by police into aen vanment it is unclear how and at what point during the arrest gray was injured. according to oh police he was arrested after he and another person fled after making eye contact with the police lieuten...

He died of three broken vertebrae in his neck and a crushed windpipe. as a result six police officers have been suspended with pay. the department of justice is investigating and by may 1, the baltimore authorities say they are going to issue a report as to what happened in the transport of freddie gray who apparently ran after seeing the police and then allegedly was arrested with a switchblade knife. he went into a coma an our or two after he had been picked up and transported by the police an...

Have been suspended now with pay. joining me now, "baltimore sun" reporter justin fenton. justin lets just begin with all this information this family would like to have. so the family is waiting on these documents according to their attorney. when will the actual incident report be released? also that full autopsy. >> what we have is the arrest report that was filled out by the police on the day of his arrest. it was filed in court. we obtained that. the officers described, you know that they m...

Get a little tipsy. >> vongushon was originally convicted six years earlier for a brutal assault. >> i knocked two people out. i broke somebodys jaw 18 places. i broke -- broke his face basically. >> vongushon is back in santa rita on a parole violation, the latest of 17 violations he says he has had since his assault conviction. this time he was picked up on a warrant for missing his court-ordered anger management classes. when he was searched, police found a switchblade knife, which is another...

>> vongushon was originally convicted six years earlier for a brutal assault. >> i knocked two people out. i broke somebodys jaw 18 places. i broke -- broke his face basically. >> vongushon is back in santa rita on a parole violation, the latest of 17 violations he says he has had since his assault conviction. this time he was picked up on a warrant for missing his court-ordered anger management classes. when he was searched, police found a switchblade knife, which is another violation. >> viole...

Pruno is robin vongushon. >> christmas was coming. time to celebrate. get a little tipsy. >> vongushon was originally convicted six years earlier for a brutal assault. >> i knocked two people out. i broke somebodys jaw 18 places. i broke -- broke his face basically. >> vongushon is back in santa rita on a parole violation, the latest of 17 violations he says he has had since his assault conviction. this time he was picked up on a warrant for missing his court-ordered anger management classes. wh...