Posted September 20, 2017 4:30 pm by Comments

By Brian Seay

A photo of the weapon Brailsford used in the Jan. 2016 shooting. (Photo: Mesa Police Department)
A judge in Arizona has ruled that a profane inscription on the dust cover of an officer’s service rifle will not be revealed to the jury in the officer’s murder case.
Former Mesa Police Officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford is facing a second degree murder charge in the shooting death of 26-year-old Daniel Shiver. The words “You’re fucked” had been inscribed on the weapon Brailsford used during the January 2016 shooting, according to the Arizona Republic.
Prosecutors argued those words were indicative of Brailsford’s mindset when he opened fire on Shiver, but Maricopa County Superior Court Judge George Foster ruled the evidence inadmissible, calling it “totally prejudicial” at a hearing earlier this month.
“In those eight to nine minutes, were the actions of the defendant reasonable under the circumstances?” Foster asked.
Police responded to a La Quinta Inn on that January day after calls came in about a man waving a gun out of the hotel window. Brailsford opened fire on Shiver in the hallway of the hotel, shooting him five times. Shiver was saying “Please don’t shoot me” as the officer pulled the trigger, but was also allegedly reaching

Source: Guns.com

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