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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 somebody's 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...

From the initial charges. this is what i suspect. the false part of the imprisonment was based on the knife. ms. mosby, and i'm 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 with that either the grand jury decided or she didn't present that false imprisonment charge because...

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? that's 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 officer. one of them saw the knife. the other one arrested gray because the first guy said get him, ...

I think some of the political statements the prosecutor made are not help. it's 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. >> let's be absolutely clear here. this is an indictment of the police department in baltimore and i think of city ha...

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 lieutenant. in a document charging gray with carrying an illegal switchblade knife an officer wrote he was ...