Cop Who Shot & Paralyzed Unarmed Motorcyclist Has Felony Conviction Reversed

Chris | InformationLiberation
Jan. 12, 2013

Remember the cowardly police officer who shot an unarmed motorcyclist in the back because he cooked up a paranoid fantasy he was reaching for a nonexistent gun?



That police officer has now been given a second chance thanks to a gang of costumed bureaucrats.

Via the Toledo Blade:
The criminal conviction of a former Ottawa Hills police officer seen on video shooting a motorcyclist in the back has been reversed and a new trial ordered, the Ohio 6th District Court of Appeals ruled Friday.

Thomas White, 30, was found guilty in Lucas County Common Pleas Court on May 14, 2010, of felonious assault with a gun specification for the May, 2009, shooting of Michael McCloskey. The bullet severed Mr. McCloskey’s spine, paralyzing him from the waist down.

White, a part-time police officer at the time, was sentenced in June, 2010, to 10 years in prison but has remained free on $100,000 bond pending his appeal. He has since moved from Toledo and could not be reached for comment Friday.

Mr. McCloskey also could not be reached for comment. His mother, Darlene Thorn, said that the family wanted to digest the information first.

“I just feel like I hit a brick wall,” she said. “How can this be?”

In the 2-1 opinion, the appellate court reversed White’s conviction and remanded it back to common pleas court for a new trial. The panel ruled that the jury was not given proper instructions of law and so did not have proper information before deliberations.
Read the full article here.

The prosecutors say they're going to appeal the reversal to Ohio's supreme court. Hopefully, if the case is retried the jury in his second case will give him a harsher sentence.













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