In a unanimous reversal Tuesday, three judges from the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court decision last year that granted immunity to Wende Kerl, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer who fatally shot Franklin.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a Charlotte police officer’s claim of qualified immunity in a lawsuit challenging her fatal shooting of Danquirs Franklin in 2019. The unanimous decision reverses trial Judge Graham Mullen, who had ruled in favor of Officer Wende Kerl and the city.
A former Hickory police officer convicted of throwing a woman to the pavement is headed to federal prison after he was sentenced a second time on Thursday.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that accused a North Carolina police officer of needlessly escalating a 2019 standoff before fatally shooting a Black man. Senior U.S. District Judge Graham Mullen on Friday threw out the lawsuit filed in June 2020 by Deborah Franklin, the mother of Danquirs Franklin, .