No Jail Time for Ex-NYPD Officer Peter Liang After Manslaughter Conviction Reduced...

Source: ABC News

No Jail Time for Ex-NYPD Officer Peter Liang After Manslaughter Conviction Reduced to Criminally Negligent Homicide

Apr 19, 2016, 3:09 PM ET

A former New York City police officer won't face any jail time after a judge reduced his manslaughter conviction to criminally negligent homicide today.

A jury convicted Peter Liang of second-degree manslaughter in February for the shooting death of Akai Gurley. The police department fired Liang shortly after the verdict.

Liang was 28 years old and 18 months out of the police academy when he was patrolling a public housing project in Brooklyn, New York, in November 2014. He fired once and the bullet ricocheted, killing Gurley, who was also in the stairwell.

But Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, who has said the officer should not have had his finger on the gun unless he was ready to shoot, told the judge last month that "a prison sentence is not warranted." Thompson recommended that Liang be sentenced to five years of probation, with the condition that he serve six months of home confinement with electric monitoring, and 500 hours of community service.

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