The officer whose testimony led to Kurtis Watkins’ 25 year sentence had a history of racist social media posts and a mistaken identification of another Black man that led to his death in custody
The officer whose testimony led to Kurtis Watkins’ 25 year sentence had a history of racist social media posts and a mistaken identification of another Black man that led to his death in custody
That sounds more like a lawyer fuck up. If the cop was a known racist, then the lawyer should have pressed that angle in the courtroom.
Sounds like they deserve a new trial, then.