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Professional witnesses. arguably, this witness is more come rt fortable on the witness stand than he is sitting at the defense table, because believe me, he has testified in many, many trials, and he is comfortable, and knows what he has to do to come across as a credible witness, so if you are doing to be calling a defendant to the stand which is a generally risky proposition, this is the one to do it with. >> and jeff toobin, a couple of things happened along the way. you heard from his own mouth as jean reported that he said absolutely not when asked did freddie gray say that "i can't breat...

He is officer number one out of six in baltimore in the freddie gray death. officer porter took the stand and he told his story, and they have all been silent until now, and you are about to find out what he said happened in that van.

Defendants don't testify, and i just think it is a tough case. >> and he has a clean record, aed on the wrap it up, danny, and that is this, you have to just get a jury to think about other possibilitieses, and you don't have to prove it if you are are a defense attorney, but get them thinking, are you certain? are you certain that those injuries a at this time point to my guy? are you really reasonably certain. >> and not only that, ashleigh, yes, and you also have to prove in many cases your own defense theory of the case, and porter is already doing that in the testimony, and putting the ba...

Who are they putting in the van right now, and they said it is freddie gray. and porter testified that he knew freddie gray and he knew him everyday walking around the western district, because that is where he pa e trolled. and he related to the officer, and you know, a couple of weeks ago he was arrested and put in the suv and he started to kick out the windows, and so an officer had to open up the door to calm him down. so he testified that he saw on the first stop freddie gray now inside of the wa wagon and he was back and forth, the wagon was going back and forth. at the second stop, he w...

Many yo in your own defense. and you know that freddie gray suffered catastrophic injuries in the back of a police van that took him en route to lockout. and he had been arrested on suspicion of carrying a knife which was not an illegal knife. jean casarez has been in the courtroom and following it from day one. i was very surprised, jean, to find out that officer porter decided to take the stand, but he did, so fill me in on what he said and why it mattered? >> so much to tell you, ashle h ashleigh. and we want to tell everybody, this is direct examination of william porter, and the prosecuti...