ok, i guess ... lets look at this...
On Tuesday, Jones' attorney Warren A. Brown said he has several questions about the traffic stop that led to Groman's shooting, including whether smelling marijuana was a valid reason to pull a car over.
"I don't know that any marijuana was found," he said. "I think the state's attorney's office and the police are going to have to play it honest no matter the warts and all [in the case], because if a Baltimore City jury gets the impression that they're lying about anything, it's going to taint their ability to get a conviction."
While Brown said he was not justifying the shooting, he wondered whether Jones' "survival instincts" kicked in because he thought he was facing a gun. Brown said Tasers resemble handguns, and in today's climate, with thousands of people protesting police shootings of black men, Jones might have panicked.
He said he thinks there's more to the story than police have disclosed.
"I don't think someone just shoots a police officer," Brown said.
Brown unsuccessfully argued Tuesday to have Jones held on home monitoring.
He noted that Jones' relatives had packed the courtroom, and he told the judge that the teen had a supportive family.
Jones appeared on a live video feed at the bail hearing wearing a light blue prisoner uniform with his hands cuffed in his lap and his body slumped against the back of a chair.
"Can I say something, though?" he asked the judge after she had finished explaining his right to legal counsel. "I did not confess to that."
His lawyer cut him off before he could elaborate.
Jones' cousin, Mia Tubman, wiped tears from her face as she watched Jones on the monitor. After the hearing, she said that police officers had abused Jones while he was in custody and that he was injured after his mugshot was taken. "They beat the [expletive] out of him," she said.
Tubman also said police lied about his confession.
Baltimore police spokesman Lt. Eric Kowalczyk said that "there was no other reported use of force other than the deploying of a Taser" on Jones before he was arrested. Police say his confession is on video.
Tubman said Jones lived with her for years, and was a bright child and a gifted math student.
"He was raised up in the church," she said.
She said Jones has a young child and a second on the way.
Batts questioned whether protesters who have been rallying for weeks against police brutality in Baltimore would also march in support of Groman.