White ex-trooper guilty in shooting of unarmed black man
A white former state trooper was led out of a South Carolina courtroom in handcuffs Monday after pleading guilty to a felony charge in the 2014 shooting an unarmed black driver seconds after a traffic stop.
Sean Groubert will be sentenced later, but Circuit Judge Casey Manning appears to have already decided there should be some prison time because he sent Groubert to jail while he mulls the punishment. Groubert faces up to 20 years for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. There is no minimum sentence.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-tr...ooting-unarmed-black-man-172056556.html?nhp=1
It appears this could have been the result of PTSD. Regardless, he has been rightly convicted and justice has been served.
What remains to be seen is how many years he will get, since there is no mandatory minimum.
A white former state trooper was led out of a South Carolina courtroom in handcuffs Monday after pleading guilty to a felony charge in the 2014 shooting an unarmed black driver seconds after a traffic stop.
Sean Groubert will be sentenced later, but Circuit Judge Casey Manning appears to have already decided there should be some prison time because he sent Groubert to jail while he mulls the punishment. Groubert faces up to 20 years for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. There is no minimum sentence.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-tr...ooting-unarmed-black-man-172056556.html?nhp=1
It appears this could have been the result of PTSD. Regardless, he has been rightly convicted and justice has been served.
What remains to be seen is how many years he will get, since there is no mandatory minimum.
