text: And today, yet the fourth acquittal of a police officer in the Freddie Gray case in Baltimore.  Found Not Guilty by Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams, who is also black.  
  
  Per a CNN article, the Judge spent "years prosecuting cases in the same courthouse where he now presides, to his investigation and prosecution of police misconduct cases for the U.S. Justice Department -- uniquely prepared him to deliver the first verdict in the closely-watched Freddie Gray case."
  
  The family has already received their $6.4 million settlement, and their attorney said about Judge Williams:  "At this critical time and for good and sound and decent reasons, we have to respect Judge Williams' opinion, because it was the result of an obviously fair process," Gray family attorney Billy Murphy told CNN on Tuesday. "  after the acquittal of Officer Nero by the Judge.