“You will answer two questions but nobody in this courtroom is giving him the death penalty. He earned that,” prosecutor Matthew Staton said in closing arguments.
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The hearing to appeal the former officer’s conviction in the shooting of Atatiana Jefferson will be held Dec. 5 in the Court of Appeals for the Second District of Texas.
After two days of deliberations, a 12-member jury sentenced Aaron Dean to 11 years, 10 months, and 12 days in prison for fatally shooting Black woman Atatiana Jefferson in 2019. The white former cop’s manslaughter conviction is historic, not only as the first instance of a peace officer being found guilty of