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Potter testified that she wouldn't have necessarily pulled over the vehicle for expired temp tags due company policy stating delays with the dmv in Minnesota. Once Officer Luckey obtained the drivers name & dob is when the warrant came to light, so to speak.
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First-degree manslaughter in this case means prosecutors allege that Potter caused Wright’s death while committing a misdemeanor — the “reckless handling or use of a firearm so as to endanger the safety of another with such force and violence that death or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable.”Can someone help ..
according to the criminal complaint
Charge: Manslaughter - 2nd Degree - Culpable Negligence Creating Unreasonable Risk
Minnesota Statute: 609.205(1), with reference to: 609.205
Offense Level: Felony Maximum Sentence: 10 YEARS AND/OR $20,000
Offense Date (on or about): 04/11/2021
I don't see an ammended charge so is this what Potter's being charged with?
In this article it states that the charge was amended however I must be overlooking it.
What to know about the trial of Kim Potter, the ex-officer who killed Daunte Wright
Potter's lawyers say she mistook her handgun for her Taser this year when she fatally shot Wright, a 20-year-old Black man. Her manslaughter trial will begin next week.
Can anyone help?
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ty! So, it's not either/or, correct? ie Can she be found guilty on both?First-degree manslaughter in this case means prosecutors allege that Potter caused Wright’s death while committing a misdemeanor — the “reckless handling or use of a firearm so as to endanger the safety of another with such force and violence that death or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable.”
The second-degree manslaughter charge alleges that she caused his death “by her culpable negligence,” meaning that Potter “caused an unreasonable risk and consciously took a chance of causing death or great bodily harm” to Wright, while using or possessing a firearm.
Neither charge requires prosecutors to prove Potter intended to kill Wright.
The attorney general’s office added the first-degree manslaughter charge after it took over the case, though it fell short of the murder charge that Wright’s family and activists wanted.
What is ex-officer Kim Potter charged with in Daunte Wright's death?
Potter, who resigned two days after the shooting, says she meant to use her Taser but accidentally grabbed her gun instead when she killed the 20-year-old Black man in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center.
They confirmed these charges on the news I watched this am.
What I saw before they broke for lunch, she was a horrible witness, especially during cross. She came across as too defensive and really dumb when asked about her taser and weapons training. She kept saying she didn't know when her training was and really didn't know what she learned. When the state pointed out the dates and what she signed that she had learned in the course, she said if you say so, that's probably right. Over and over, she said this.Experts: Potter missed chance to explain Taser-gun mix-up
The former Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright alternated between tears, statements of remorse and clipped, matter-of-fact answers as she testified at her trial on manslaughter charges in the death of the Black motorist.
“It was really damning when she got the video of the freeze frame of her with her hand on what appeared to be her weapon as she was still standing by and about to come in,” Baker said. “I think she did a great job of impeaching her.”
Baker said if the jurors had begun deliberating shortly after Potter’s testimony, her emotional display might have had more of an effect. He said having the weekend between her testimony and closing arguments gives jurors some distance.
Legal experts said Potter’s testimony wasn’t as strong as they expected it to be.
Baker said the defense spent too much time on the justification for the traffic stop, and there wasn’t enough focus on the moments when she pulled out her gun instead of her Taser. Baker said Potter didn’t provide any explanation of what she did at that moment, something he called “problematic for the defense.”
Halberg added on Friday: “I thought today was going to be the knockout punch. But that was not the case.”
I think she can be found guilty on both. I know they went over the jury instructions with the judge after the defense rested, but don't know what those will be.
I thought the State did a great job of showing the bodycam frame by frame where she grabs her gun & aims it. She didn't show emotion or feeling until that video. She knew she was wrong then and now. Her attorney on redirect doesn't ask her about pulling the wrong weapon & left it up in the air for the jury to decide.
which is exactly what i've been saying all along about lack of training and she has now confirmed that they basically have had none with the taser. They should have enough training that they develop muscle memory of what is where and how to use them. IF they had much training at all, she would at least be able to remember some of it.
What was the paper she had in her hand during the frame by frame? I think the defense is just basing the whole case on that she was justified in shooting Daunte and just leaving the whole taser mistake out.
What was the paper she had in her hand during the frame by frame? I think the defense is just basing the whole case on that she was justified in shooting Daunte and just leaving the whole taser mistake out.
It would be great if someone could find and post all the vids from Friday. PAGING @Cousin Dupree
What was the paper she had in her hand during the frame by frame? I think the defense is just basing the whole case on that she was justified in shooting Daunte and just leaving the whole taser mistake out.
It would be great if someone could find and post all the vids from Friday. PAGING @Cousin Dupree
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I will say and think it should be said that his family and activists wanting a murder charge as the article states is overboard. I don't see any reason whatsoever to believe this fits a murder charge in the sense they are talking.First-degree manslaughter in this case means prosecutors allege that Potter caused Wright’s death while committing a misdemeanor — the “reckless handling or use of a firearm so as to endanger the safety of another with such force and violence that death or great bodily harm to any person was reasonably foreseeable.”
The second-degree manslaughter charge alleges that she caused his death “by her culpable negligence,” meaning that Potter “caused an unreasonable risk and consciously took a chance of causing death or great bodily harm” to Wright, while using or possessing a firearm.
Neither charge requires prosecutors to prove Potter intended to kill Wright.
The attorney general’s office added the first-degree manslaughter charge after it took over the case, though it fell short of the murder charge that Wright’s family and activists wanted.
What is ex-officer Kim Potter charged with in Daunte Wright's death?
Potter, who resigned two days after the shooting, says she meant to use her Taser but accidentally grabbed her gun instead when she killed the 20-year-old Black man in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center.
They confirmed these charges on the news I watched this am.
