The second day of the Lt. Brian Rice will probably be known for who was in the courthouse, but who did not testify, as we saw two other accused officers in the hallway, with their lawyers, waiting to testify. 

Most recently, Officer Edward Nero was here. 

Nero was acquitted in May of all four charges against him. 

He was in the courthouse hallway with his lawyer. 

Like Rice he was involved in the arrest.  Nero was waiting in the hallway for about an hour and then left. 

Earlier we saw Officer William Porter, and he had been ordered to testify in the trials of the five other accused officers. 

He waited in the hallway while his lawyer Gary Proctor was in the courtroom watching as Brandon Ross, Freddie Gray’s friend testify.

Porter and his attorney then left the courthouse. 

As for Brandon Ross, the assault suspect who took cellphone video of Gray being loaded into the police van. 

Ross wanted to complain to a police supervisor about the way Gray was being treated.  Ross was said Lt. Rice told him to leave. 

Ross said Rice treated him like a jerk. 

Court is now in recess until Monday when the prosecution is likely to wrap up its case.

3:40 p.m.

Officer Edward Nero, who was acquitted in an earlier trial on charges stemming from Freddie Gray's death, is in the courtroom as prosecutors continue to present their case.

It's not known if Nero will be called to testify. After a recess, Officer Lloyd Sobboh testified in two earlier trials, those of Nero and Officer Caesar Goodson, and spoke Friday about how defendants shackled but not seat-belted can still move in a van.

The day's fifth witness, Jamel Baker, said he lives on Mount Street and heard Gray's screams in his apartment during Gray's arrest, and saw Gray loaded into the van.

2:45 p.m.

A friend of Freddie Gray who took video of Gray being loaded back into a police van has testified at the trial of Lt. Brian Rice, the highest ranking officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray.

Brandon Ross, who is awaiting trial on an assault charge was brought into court by sheriff's deputies.

He was not handcuffed while on the stand.

Ross described how Rice chased Gray, identifying Rice in portions of closed circuit video of Gray's chased and arrest on Pressberry Street.

At the arrest scene, Ross said Ross told him "you have to leave."

Ross said he ran to the home of a woman who lived in nearby Gilmor Homes, and borrowed a cell phone to call 911.

Ross said he wanted to report what was happening to Gray, and he gave an assumed name.

He told prosecutors he did that, "because I didn't want to get harassed by police."

Ross said he used the borrowed cell phone to take video of the van's second stop at Mount and Baker Streets.

He described how Gray was on his knees on the ground, and was screaming as two officers were putting flex cuffs and shackles on him.

Gray said he complained to Officer William Porter, who was in the crowd.  Ross said he wanted to complain toa  supervisor and Porter told him to talk to Rice.

As he approached Rice, Ross said Rice told him, "I am a supervisor, leave before I lock you up."

Ross then said Rice appeared to reach for his Taser.  

Prosecutors asked Ross what he did next, and Ross said, "I left."

The court then showed portions of the recent where Ross only recorded audio, not video.  Ross said he was walking away.

He described Rice's tone of voice in their encounter as "loud and aggressive, like I felt I had done something wrong."

Under cross examination, Ross told defense attorney Chazz Ball that he heard Gray kicking when he was inside the police van, but he said the van was not shaking.

Ball tried to introduced testimony that Ross gave at Officer William Porter's trial in December, in which Ross said he saw the van shaking.  

Prosecutors objected, and after a bench conference, the question was withdrawn.

Under rebuttal questioning, Ross told prosecutor Janice Bledsoe that Rice treated him badly.

"He was being a jerk.  We weren't being rowdy, and preventing him from doing his job.  Why were we being told to leave," Ross said.

Ross was on the stand for about an hour.

Officer Porter was spotted in the hallway, and his attorney Gary Proctor was in the courtroom watching Ross's testimony.

Prosecutors were considering calling  Porter to the stand before the end of the day.

However, just before a mid-afternoon break ended, Porter was seen leaving the courthouse with Proctor.

Porter is being forced to testify with limited immunity at this trial, and the trials of other officers.  

Porter's first trial ended with a hung jury in December, and he faces a retrial in September.

1:30 p.m.

The prosecution maintains because of his rank, Lt. Brian Rice has added responsibility to protect Freddie Gray on the day he was arrested.

The latest witness to testify at Rice's manslaughter trial presented evidence of that.

Internal Affairs Detective Michael Boyd showed the court a log that lists Rice as the shift commander of the Western District on April 12, 2015.

Boyd also described the audio of radio calls from the day of Gray's arrest from the time when Rice spotted Gray and requested help, all the way to the van's arrival at the Western District, where Rice is heard telling dispatchers that Gray needs a medic.

Boyd is also showing all of the closed circuit video from April 12, where Rice is seen chasing Gray, and later loading him into a police van at the van's second stop at Mount and Baker Street.

Much of Boyd's testimony was spent showing the video and playing the audio.

Under cross examination, Boyd said that a majority of officers from the Western District responded to Gray's arrest.

Defense attorney Chazz Ball showed Boyd two still photos from the closed circuit video.  One picture shows Rice entering the van at Mount and Baker Street.  The other shows him leaving the van.  He was asked how long Gray was in the van according to the photos, and Boyd said it was 13 seconds.

Boyd was also asked by Ball about a request Rice made to have Officers Garrett Miller and Edward Nero meet him, what is known as a "10-32" in police radio calls.  Ball asked if other officers could respond to that call, and Boyd said they could.

Boyd was one of the detectives who interviewed Rice on video, though the video of that interview has not been admitted into evidence.

After a lunch break, the  next witness  is expected to be  Gray's friend Brandon Ross, who took the video of Gray begin loaded into the van by Rice at the van's second stop.   Ross was with Gray and another man when Rice spotted Gray running away.

Ross is incarcerated in Baltimore City awaiting charges related to a stabbing in April.  

Ross was expected to testify this morning, but he had not been brought to court by sheriff's deputies, and so Boyd was called to the stand.

In an interview for Maryland's News This Week, University of Baltimore Law Professor David Jaros noted that  even though many of the same witnesses are testifying at each of these trials, Judge Williams cannot consider testimony from previous trials because each case is separate.

He also said the judge is not considering events outside the evidence presented, including the police involved killings this week in Minnesota and Louisiana, and Thursday's killings in Dallas.

11:20 a.m.

A neurosurgeon from Illinois is the first witness of the day at  the manslaughter trial of Baltimore City Police Lt. Brian Rice, the highest ranking officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray.

Dr. Morris Marc Sorriano is a paid expert witness who testified for the prosecution at the trials of Officers William Porter, Edward Nero and Caesar Goodson.

Sorriano maintains that  Freddie Gray suffered "incomplete spinal cord" injury where he could still move his head and talk.

He testified that Gray's injuries occurred between the second van stop at Mount and Baker Street, where Rice loaded Gray into the van but didn't put him in a seat belt, and the van's fourth stop at Druid Hill and Dolphin Avenues. That's  where Goodson checked on Gray, and asked him if he needed to go to the hospital.

Sorriano testified that due to the nature of his injury, Gray could still move his head and talk by the time the van reached the fourth stop. He did say that Gray's breathing at the stop would be labored.

During 30 minutes of proceedings this morning, the  defense objected to questioning numerous times, including questions on Gray's conduct at the fourth stop.

After that question was asked, the defense objected, and Judge Barry Williams ordered all lawyers to his bench for a private conference.  He then ordered a brief recess in the proceedings.

After the recess Sorriano completed his testimony.

Sorriano said that he believed the injuries occurred by the van's fourth stop, because of his labored breathing.

Under a brief cross examination, Sorriano conceded that all of the x-rays taken of Gray that he cited in his testimony were taken after the van's final stop, when Gray was put into an ambulance.

Sorriano was asked if there any visible signs of Gray;'s injuries at the van's fourth stop, and the doctor could neither confirm or deny that.

Judge Williams then recessed the proceedings pending the availability of the state's next witness.  

The next witness  was expected to be  Gray's friend Brandon Ross, who took the video of Gray begin loaded into the van by Rice at the van's second stop.   Ross was with Gray and another man when Rice spotted Gray running away.

Ross is incarcerated in Baltimore City awaiting charges related to a stabbing in April.  

By 11:10 a.m., Ross hadn't arrived in court, and so the next witness to take the stand is Baltimore City Police Detective Michael Boyd.

9:25 a.m.

Lt. Brian Rice has arrived back in Courthouse East for the second day of his manslaughter trial.

While security has been increased around Courthouse East during all of the Freddie Gray related trials, there is no signs of any enhanced security following the deadly police shootings in Dallas.

There are two protesters holding signs outside of the courthouse.  

A larger protest is planned for later today at McKeldin Square in the wake of this week's deadly police involved shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota.

5:30 a.m.

It is day two of the manslaughter trial of Baltimore City Police Lt. Brian Rice, the highest ranking police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray.  

Prosecutors presented four witnesses on Thursday.

All of these witnesses had testified at the trials of the other officers, but cross examination brought new information from this witnesses.

For example, when Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Carol Allan testified under cross examination that even though the manner of Gray’s death was homicide, it doesn’t mean Rice committed a homicide. 

Another witness testifying Thursday was  Baltimore City Police IT director Andrew Jaffee, who testified that Rice was sent the seat belt policy, but he could not confirm if Rice read it.

Unlike previous trials, there some disagreement between Jaffee and prosecutors over whether a computer Rice would access was being repaired at the time the seat belt policy was released. Jaffee said he could not recall if that computer was under repair.

Today more prosecution witnesses are expected, including the possibility of another accused Officer, Garrett Miller who is ordered to testify for the state with limited immunity.  Miller faces his own trial later this month. 

Prosecutors could wrap up their case late today, though the case is more likely to continue into Monday.

Rice now faces  four charges not five, as before opening statements prosecutors dropped one of the two misconduct in Office Charges Rice was facing.

The charge was  related to an alleged illegal arrest of Freddie Gray. 

It’s not clear if the state has abandoned that theory. 

Judge Barry Williams did not rule on that in May at the trial of another officer who arrested Gray, Officer Edward Nero.  

Rice faces one misconduct charge, along with manslaughter, second degree assault and reckless endangerment.