State will retry North Miami cop who shot at autistic man with toy, wounded caretaker
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Prosecutors announced Wednesday that they would retry Jonathon Aledda, the of attempted manslaughter for shooting at an autistic man with a toy truck.
Jurors earlier this month deadlocked on three of four charges against Aledda, forcing a judge to declare a mistrial. The jury acquitted the officer of one misdemeanor charge of culpable negligence.
The jury’s foreperson told the Miami Herald that five of six jurors wanted to clear Aledda outright.
Aledda’s trial was being closely watched in South Florida because he was the first officer in Miami-Dade to be charged criminally for an on-duty shooting since 1989. During a brief court hearing on Wednesday, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Alan Fine set a tentative trial date of June 3.
“We are deeply disappointed. I think the evidence is clear that five of six jurors voted to acquit within the first five minutes of deliberations,” said Aledda’s defense attorney, Douglas Hartman.
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02 Dec 2019, 2:56 am
