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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...

Not a switchblade and is lawful under maryland law. andrew levy now we're learning that there is a local baltimore law that might make this knife that they found illegal. or might make it legal or illegal. i don't think we have andrew levy -- i'm here i'm sorry, i'm here. can you repeat your question? marilyn mosby said in her announcement of the charges that the knife was not a switch blade meaning it was lawful under maryland law. andy alperstein is saying yes, but under local battler more law, there may be a provision that doesn't make this particular knife illegal, which then would justify...

Comes out and the like. if the -- one of the many extraordinary things about this case and the aggressiveness of these charges is, first of all, that the arresting officers were charged with crimes that police officers almost never get charged with and their defenses are either that they had probable cause for the arrest or that they had a good faith basis for believing that this knife was an illegal knife. and that is -- that could be a very good defense in a situation hike this because of how unclear it can be whether it's a -- whether it's a dangerous weapon under the statute. >> so three o...

But i think she overlooked the officers that originally arrested mr. gray charged him with a baltimore city code violation which is different. because in her charging papers that she read of the officers, she talked about that it wasn't a violation of maryland law. we have a city code law that is more expansive and the motion that was filed today by mark zeyon, who is a very skilled lawyer here in baltimore, alleged that an inspection of the knife would show that his client did not falsely arrest a person. in other words, it was illegal for gray to posses the knife and, therefore, the arrest w...