INTERVIEW – KATIE PHANG – Fox News legal analyst, trial attorney, former prosecutor and Partner at Berger Singerman, based in Miami, FL.

• Judge to rule on most serious charge in Freddie Gray trials Thursday. (USA Today) — A Baltimore judge on Thursday will announce the fate of police officer Caesar Goodson, tried on second-degree murder and other charges in the case of a young black man whose death sparked riots across the city and Black Lives Matter protests across the nation. Freddie Gray, 25, died while in police custody one week after his turbulent and controversial arrest on a Baltimore street in April 2015. Six officers have been charged, but Goodson faces the most serious count, a form of second-degree murder identified as depraved-heart murder. Goodson could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted. Gray was arrested by bicycle officers on April 12, 2015, after he caught their eye and ran. He was charged with illegal possession of a switchblade, although prosecutors later said the knife was legal under state law. He was shackled and loaded into a van driven by Goodson but was not secured in a seat belt. Gray suffered a severe spinal injury, apparently en route to the police station, and died one week later.