suit. cosby testified in a sworn deposition before they reached a confidential settlement. fast forward to 2015. that deposition was unsealed, revealing cosby had admitted giving drugs to women he wanted to have sex with. prosecutors reopened the criminal investigation and days before the statute of limitations ran out, cosby was charged in criminal court. pennsylvania defense attorney brian represented cosby from the beginning. he pleaded not guilty. a first trial last year-ended in a hung jury. she s entitled to a verdict in this case. reporter: now a new trial with some big differences. a new defense team for cosby led by tom mezaro who got an acquittal in 2005 for michael jackson in his child molestation trial. before representing cosby in 2015, mezaro told cnn how he
you can t look to the police for help. they hurting people. they the new gang. reporter: strained relations between citizens and police are not new in baltimore, but now they face an all-new challenge. i m joined tonight by paul henderson, veteran prosecutor and legal analyst along with tom mezaro criminal defense attorney. it seems like every week we have a police story. this one is from the archives. 25-year-old guy has a broken neck. riding the bike? did he have an accident? the justice department says it s premature to intervene. do you agree with that? well they re saying it s premature to intervene because there are investigations that are already going on at the ground at two different levels. so they re going to be trying to figure out at a local level what, if anything, mr. gray would have been or could have