3. The physical evidence supports a probable cause that a crime has been committed. There is some talk of a wound to Freddie Gray’s head matching up to a bolt in the van.
Second Degree Murder: DefinitionIt's sounding more and more to me that Gray's fatal injury was caused by his neck hitting an exposed bolt in the van. I'm also guessing that the DA's justification for a 2nd-degree murder charge is that the police were operating the prisoner van in a negligent manner, when in fact Gray was thrashing around in the back of the van, accidentally landing on the bolt.Second-degree murder is ordinarily defined as: 1) an intentional killing that is not premeditated or planned, nor committed in a reasonable "heat of passion"; or 2) a killing caused by dangerous conduct and the offender's obvious lack of concern for human life. Second-degree murder may best be viewed as the middle ground between first-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter.