if it was the video i saw, i'd say it was involuntary with gross negligence...
Posted on 07/08/2010 3:26:14 PM PDT by smokingfrog
(07-08) 14:59 PDT LOS ANGELES -- Jurors have reached a verdict in the murder trial of former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle, who shot and killed unarmed train passenger Oscar Grant on Jan. 1, 2009.
The verdict is scheduled to be read in Judge Robert Perry's downtown Los Angeles courtroom at about 4 p.m. today, said a source with knowledge of the matter.
Jurors were given four options during deliberations. They could convict Mehserle, 28, of second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter, or they could acquit him.
The panel began deliberations Friday, but had to start from scratch Wednesday after a four-day break because one juror left on vacation and was replaced with an alternate.
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Is Oakland readying the cookies and lemonade for the level headed street urchins that will react to this announcement?
Glad I am not taking BART today.
DON’T be anywhere near the intersection of Florence and Normandie when the verdict is read.
Google “Reginald Denny”
I remember it well.
Wouldn’t want a concrete block upside the head!
Excrement preparing to meet fan. Brace yerselves.
Kaiser evacuated employees at 3:00. Per sis, traffic jam getting out of town (Oakland)
Oops.
if it was the video i saw, i'd say it was involuntary with gross negligence...
I have a good friend who is with the CHP in the Bay Area. They are all gathering at a staging area to prepare for the response following the verdict.
I was at a taco stand around w30th and S Figueroa.
Hopefully nothing will happen. The local media is hyping this, all going live now.
“Guilty of involunteer manslaughter.”
Chinese Radio just reported shop owners are boarding up all the stores around downtown Oakland.
Local TV reported that all city, county, state and federal empolyees in downtown Oakland have been sent home
All Oakland Bart stations are on lock-down. No one is being allowed in, only out.
“I was at a taco stand around w30th and S Figueroa”
Cool. Did you have to run for your life??
Guilty: Involuntary Manslaughter (2-4 years or probation.) He is walking.
Okay, so only half the city gets burnt?
GUILTY: involuntary manslaughter
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