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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoseph Weekley, Cop Who Fatally Shot Sleeping 7-Year-Old, Will No Longer Face Charges
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/28/joseph-weekley-charges-dismissed-aiyana-stanley-jones_n_6566032.htmlThe Detroit police officer who fatally shot a sleeping 7-year-old girl will not be retried, officials said Wednesday.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement that her office was moving to dismiss the case against Officer Joseph Weekley. He was originally charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor, after Aiyana Stanley-Jones was killed in 2010 during a botched police raid at her home.
Weekley's first trial in 2013 ended in a mistrial. In a second trial last year, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the manslaughter charge after a motion by the defense. The jury again deadlocked while deliberating whether to convict Weekley of the lesser charge, causing a second mistrial.
"Today we personally informed the family of Aiyana StanleyJones that we have made a decision that we would not be going to trial for a third time in the Joseph Weekley case," Worthy said, calling Hathaway's decision to dismiss the manslaughter charge "unfortunate."
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement that her office was moving to dismiss the case against Officer Joseph Weekley. He was originally charged with involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor, after Aiyana Stanley-Jones was killed in 2010 during a botched police raid at her home.
Weekley's first trial in 2013 ended in a mistrial. In a second trial last year, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed the manslaughter charge after a motion by the defense. The jury again deadlocked while deliberating whether to convict Weekley of the lesser charge, causing a second mistrial.
"Today we personally informed the family of Aiyana StanleyJones that we have made a decision that we would not be going to trial for a third time in the Joseph Weekley case," Worthy said, calling Hathaway's decision to dismiss the manslaughter charge "unfortunate."
As if there were ever any doubt...
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Joseph Weekley, Cop Who Fatally Shot Sleeping 7-Year-Old, Will No Longer Face Charges (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jan 2015
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bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)1. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Despicable action by the judge.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)2. #licenseToKill
There are essentially no penalties. Want to commit the perfect murder? Be a cop and take any opportunity with the flimsiest of justifications and fire away. There are essentially no penalties. We have given our police forces an unrestricted license to kill.
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)3. Cops wonder why they're not respected?
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)4. White trigger-happy cop kills black kid and gets away with it.
It's sad that I'm not surprised by this. What a beautiful little girl. May she rest in peace.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)5. Should anything bad happen to Mr. Weekley, it is his fate
and will deserve no sympathy.