Are Prosecutors About to Blow The Sam Dubois Murder Trial?

By Bob Owens

A Cincinnati jury has entered a second day of deliberations in the trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing for the shooting death of black motorist Sam DuBose as DuBose tried to drive away from a traffic stop.

Jurors resumed deliberations Thursday in the murder trial of a white former police officer who said he feared for his life before fatally shooting an unarmed black man during a traffic stop over a missing front license plate in Ohio.

Hamilton County Judge Megan Shanahan had sequestered the jurors Wednesday night after the deliberated for more than four hours and told them to resume Thursday morning.

Before they got the case, Shanahan instructed them to apply the law to the facts presented in court, and to judge the facts “from the perspective of a reasonable officer at the scene,” not in “20-20 hindsight.”

Prosecutors want the jurors to conclude that now-fired University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing “purposely” killed Sam DuBose. Jurors also have the option of convicting him of voluntary manslaughter, meaning he killed in a fit of rage or sudden passion after being provoked.

Tensing, 26, has said he shot DuBose, 43, while being dragged by DuBose’s car as he …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms