From Reuters:
“Minnesota ex-officer's prison
term cut in shooting death of Australian woman”
Former Minneapolis police officer
Mohamed Noor drew a reduced sentence of 57 months in prison - the maximum
possible for manslaughter - after his murder conviction in the 2017 shooting
death of an Australian woman was overturned last month. The resentencing
followed a Sept. 15 Minnesota Supreme Court ruling to vacate Noor's
third-degree murder conviction and order that he be resentenced on a lesser
charge of second-degree manslaughter in the death of Justine Ruszczyk, 40, who
called police on the night of July 15, 2017, after hearing a woman scream near
her home. read more Lawyers for Noor, a 35-year-old Somali immigrant, had
sought the minimum 41 months available under sentencing guidelines, saying he
had been a "model prisoner." Had Minnesota District Judge Kathryn
Quaintance accepted the request, Noor, who has already served about 2-1/2 years
of his original 12-1/2-year sentence, could have been released by early October
2022. But Quaintance, who had imposed the original sentence in June 2019,
rejected Noor's good-behavior prison record as grounds for a reduced sentence. Instead,
she noted that Noor fired “across the nose” of his partner in the squad car on
a warm summer night when residents of a nearby house were entertaining on their
porch. Noor fired his gun at Ruszczyk from the passenger seat as she approached
the police vehicle, killing her. “These factors of endangering the public make
your crime of manslaughter appropriate for high end of the guidelines,"
the judge told Noor. In 2019, a jury acquitted Noor of second-degree murder but
convicted him of third-degree "depraved-mind murder" and
second-degree manslaughter, and he was sentenced to 12-1/2 years in prison.
^ I’m glad that the Judge did
what the Jury didn’t. At least he will stay in prison a little longer and
hopefully this will follow him for the rest of his life. Minnesota hasn't been doing so well lately so maybe they should stop having Jury Trials since the people there seem pretty off. ^
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