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Minnesota Supreme Court reverses former officer Mohamed Noor's 3rd-degree murder conviction
KSTP.com ^ | 9/15/2021 | Tommy Wiita

Posted on 09/15/2021 8:53:45 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Wednesday, the Minnesota Supreme Court reversed the third-degree murder conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor. His conviction was based on the third-degree depraved-mind murder charge in the death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond.

According to court records, the state's Supreme Court ruled to reverse the third-degree murder conviction and send the case to district court, where Noor will be re-sentenced for his second-degree manslaughter conviction. He was originally sentenced to 12½ years in prison.

The move comes after Noor's attorney, Thomas Plunkett, filed a petition requesting the high court to hear the case after the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled earlier this year to uphold the 2019 conviction for the shooting death of Damond in July 2017. A petition was granted days after the court upheld the conviction.

According to the ruling Wednesday, the court wrote that "the mental state necessary for depraved-mind murder... is a generalized indifference to human life, which cannot exist when the defendant's conduct is directed with particularity at the person who is killed."

The ruling went on to say the evidence was "insufficient" to uphold his conviction.

The court's ruling Wednesday could give Derek Chauvin grounds to appeal his third-degree murder conviction in George Floyd’s death, but that would have little tangible impact since Chauvin was also convicted of the more serious count of second-degree murder.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: banglist; donutwatch; justinedamond; minnesota; mohamednoor; noor; ruszczykdamond; thomasplunkett
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I'm on a public computer right now, so I don't have my Justine Damond ping list.

Sorry.

1 posted on 09/15/2021 8:53:45 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; neverdem; SunkenCiv; Cindy; LucyT; decimon; freedumb2003; ...

Thanks, ButThreeLeftsDo.

*PING* to the rest of you.


2 posted on 09/15/2021 8:55:13 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ((The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.))
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To: grey_whiskers

👍


3 posted on 09/15/2021 8:57:13 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Once again, muslims are a protected class of the democrat taliban party.


4 posted on 09/15/2021 8:58:08 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“Generalized indifference to human life”

Hmmmmmm……

Wonder what else that describes?


5 posted on 09/15/2021 8:58:37 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Of course they reversed his conviction because his name isn’t Derrick Chauvin who was innocent of all charges


6 posted on 09/15/2021 9:01:22 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

But Chauvin’s conviction stands. OK.

BTW, Chauvin’s sentence was almost twice the length of Noor’s.

White privilege.


7 posted on 09/15/2021 9:06:10 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“The ruling went on to say the evidence was “insufficient” to uphold his conviction.”

The actual murder is “insufficient evidence”? What more do they need?


8 posted on 09/15/2021 9:06:35 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

So it’ perfectly OK for a racist black cop to murder an unarmed white person. Right, Justine Damond? Right, Ashlii Babbitt?

White privilege.


9 posted on 09/15/2021 9:07:16 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Bonemaker

“What more do they need?”

A white cop.


10 posted on 09/15/2021 9:07:46 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Isn’t murder the one crime for which there is no statute of limitations?

Re-file it. Prontissimo.


11 posted on 09/15/2021 9:08:54 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

So now the Just-Us Department needs to codify victimology to we all understand the new social order. Is a petty black criminal like George Floyd higher or lower than a Muslim psychopath? We all understand white, heterosexual men are on the bottom, but what’s the rank order above them?


12 posted on 09/15/2021 9:11:01 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Just give him the original sentence for the manslaughter conviction. 12 1/2 years.


13 posted on 09/15/2021 9:12:32 AM PDT by toast
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To: toast

From the article...

“According to court records, the state’s Supreme Court ruled to reverse the third-degree murder conviction and send the case to district court, where Noor will be re-sentenced for his second-degree manslaughter conviction. He was originally sentenced to 12½ years in prison.”


14 posted on 09/15/2021 9:13:55 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

No way he could do what he did WITHOUT “a generalized indifference to human life”. He shot a woman with no more regard than most people would shoot a tin can.


15 posted on 09/15/2021 9:15:28 AM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Our justice system has been compromised steadily, over the years.
Anymore, if you disagree with a verdict, just shop for another judge, until you find one who agrees with you.


16 posted on 09/15/2021 9:34:32 AM PDT by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: joma89

My God that poor woman was simply assassinated like Babbitt.


17 posted on 09/15/2021 9:37:54 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

This actually may help Chauvin


18 posted on 09/15/2021 9:44:10 AM PDT by Az Joe ( "Everything woke turns to shit" ----- Pray, pray hard, pray hard without ceasing for America.)
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To: Az Joe

If he shows up in blackface.


19 posted on 09/15/2021 9:47:21 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The training officers and sergeants who signed off on this incompetent moron to carry a firearm need to be locked in the cell with him serving the full 12 1/2 year sentence.


20 posted on 09/15/2021 9:53:55 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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