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Attorneys for at least two police officers say they want to physically see it and they filed a motion to see the knife, and this was a knife on freddie gray and was concealed at the time he was arrested and a state law says a switchblade is illegal to carry, and the baltimore city code says what is called a spring-assisted knife is also illegally, and that's what freddie gray had, so literally the attorneys say show us the evidence and the knife, and that is also in play. a lot of things going on behind the scenes carol, to set in motion what is going to be happening by the 27th which is the p...

The chief prosecutor's decision surprised some, praised by others and now being scrutinized. sources say the police case does not support several of the charges fooild against the officers including murder. according to officials, the police contemplated a manslaughter charge at after being briefed by the medical examiner's office. the same investigators thought the autopsy would fall short of calling the death a homicide. but it turned out the medical examiner had determined differently. >> mr. gray's death was a homicide. >> another discrepancy, whether the knife found on gray was legal or n...

And the community. and recent events continue to demonstrate the need to press forward with these reforms. we have to get it right. failure is not an option. >> also today, two of the officers charged in freddie gray's death are making news. their defense attorneys are challenging the state prosecutor's -- city prosecutor's claim that gray was illegally arrested. officer edward nero and officer garrett miller both of whom face charges of assault, misconduct and false imprisonment want to inspect that knife as part of their client's defenses. they claim gray's knife did indeed violate baltimore...

Is a spring-assisted knife. again, when you look at maryland's law, this is a legal knife in maryland. there's a spring mechanism inside that when i barly push it it comes the rest of the way open. that's not a switchblade or automatic knife. i don't have to touch the blade to open it. if there were a button here that would be considered an automatic knife and would be banned in maryland. this is a spring-assisted knife. you have to touch the blade to get it open. >> here's the deal. everything that i've read today is that there are certain kind of knives that are legal or illegal in the state...

Her home. people showed up at the office of where her father has worked for 30 years and given sort of the volatile situation in baltimore, that is a public safety issue. and that is a problem. and i was also told that this person did reach out to marilyn mosby by facebook via facebook. we know marilyn mosby has been active on social media, and she hasn't heard back. nor has the attorney heard back. that gives me some concern, not only as sort of the personal safety for this person that was wrongly named, but also for the haste within which she brought these charges. we know she brought the ch...