Officer In Freddie Gray Case Choses Bench Trial

RadioOnFire.com - A Baltimore police officer charged in the Freddie Gray case has chosen a trial before a judge rather than a jury.

Officer Edward Nero faces assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office charges in Gray's arrest in 2015. Gray was a 25-year-old black man who died after he was injured in a police van.

Nero's trial is scheduled to begin Thursday and is expected to last about five days.

Nero's decision means Circuit Judge Barry Williams will hear the case. Nero is the second officer to stand trial. Late last year, the judge declared a mistrial in the case against Officer William Porter after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision.