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CA: Ex-BART officer gets 2 years for killing unarmed Oscar Grant!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Ex-BART officer Mehserle sentenced to two years in prison for fatal shooting of unarmed man [updated] November 5, 2010 | 1:05 pm Johannes Mehserle, right, shown Jan. 14, 2009 in the East Fork Justice Court in Minden, Nev. Credit: Associated Press/Cathleen Allison A former transit police officer convicted of involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting an unarmed man on an Oakland train station platform was sentenced by a Los Angeles judge Friday to two years in prison. Johannes Mehserle, 28, contended that he mistakenly used his firearm instead of an electric Taser weapon when he shot Oscar J. Grant III in the early hours of New Year?s Day 2009. But prosecutors argued at his trial that Mehserle meant to reach for his handgun as he tried to handcuff an unresisting Grant, who was lying face-down on the platform floor...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 06, 2010 (boomark / email).