If you or I shot someone in the back, would we not get more than two years?
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I’m assuming counter-protesters greatly outnumber those attending. Every lunacy has a champion to defend it. If you think Mehserle is just totally innocent and are baffled why a misguided jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the little bitty mishap of shooting Oscar Grant in the back, then you need to be at the Support Mehersle rally this Monday. The only [...] SFist has the PDF and full letter. Mehserle wrote it four days before the verdict. Excerpts. For now, and forever I will live, breathe, sleep, and not sleep with the memory of Mr. Grant screaming “You shot me” and putting my hands on the bullet wound thinking the pressure would help while I kept [...] A primary reason Mehserle was convicted was the multiple cell phone videos of the shooting taken by BART passengers. They showed conclusively that Oscar Grant was lying prone on his stomach and that Mehserle shot him in the back. Thus the focus of the trial was on why, not if, Mehserle did it. We may [...] From the excellent SF Weekly live blog Veteran Oakland civil rights attorney Jim Chanin — who has sued Bay Area police departments countless times — told SF Weekly he had mixed feelings about the verdict. In 40 years as a Bay Area lawyer and community organizer, this, he says, is the first time a police [...] The gun enhancement charge makes his sentence much more severe. His possible sentence is 5-14 years, and under California’s Draconian sentencing laws, judges have little if any leeway. His years in prison will be Hell. BART transit officer Johannes Mehserle shot Grant in the back as Grant was lying face down on a BART station floor. Multiple cell phone cameras recorded it. He said it was an accident and he meant to use his taser. The jury said it was involuntary manslaughter, the least serious of the possible charges. The [...] Oscar Grant poster in Oakland store window SFist Oakland riots, will they or won’t they happen? Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop accused of killing Oscar Grant at the Frutivale station, could face 2nd degree murder (15 years – life), voluntary manslaughter (3 – 11 years), involuntary manslaughter (2 – 4 years), or acquittal. If [...] Johannes Mehserle, a Bay Area Rapid Transit cop, killed Oscar Grant by shooting him in the back while Grant was lying stomach down on the ground and not resisting. BART has agreed to pay $1.5 million to Grant’s survivors. Mehserle goes on trial for murder in May. |  | ||||
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