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Involving the first officer to go to trialkz and men mistried. griff jenkins with in court today, griff? >> greta, a bombshell, indeed. judge barry williams who presided over officer williams porter trial which ended in a hung jury last month ruled today that porter must testify against fellow officer caesar goodson whose trial begins monday. the judge ruling that that testimony porter will give in gibsons trial if he does testify cannot be used against him at a later date, for instance, in port...

Phang. katie, all right. so the judge says that he can force the first officer whose trial ended up in a hung jury and retried in june that he can force him to testify. what happened to it the fifth amendment right to self-incrimination? >> its like take the u.s. constitution, the fifth amendment and take that big sharpy marker and mark it out there. is limited immunity statute thats affording the power to the prosecution and the judge to order porter to testify against his fellow officers. the ...

And witness at the same time. also, earlier in the day, officer goodson was in court for a handful of rulings earlier this morning which included a denial for a change of venue, a ruling the jurors will remain as they were in porters trial anonymous but not sequestered and the admission of a medical history report for freddie gray about a previous back injury which was not available back during porters trial. so where does that leave us? heres what we know. we know that caesar goodson, the drive...

Thats probably pretty shocking but i think it was a horrible decision by judge williams and im glad that porters team is appealing this to a higher level. >> ted, when i saw it i thought what was he thinking? the judge or maybe drinking. why would he do this? it really does make this other officer unfairly vulnerable. >> it makes the officer vulnerable in many areas. just think about it. jury poll thats out there is listening and seeing all thats going on here. where you want to bring porter in,...