Criminal Law
Trial Begins for a CA Police Officer Who Fatally Shot a Mentally-Ill Man
Prosecutors and defense attorneys have presented competing narratives in the trial of a California police officer accused of shooting and killing a mentally ill man, alternately asking the jury to sympathize with the officer’s need to make split-second decisions or the troubled victim whose only crime was not stopping for police.
The two versions emerged as prosecutors opened their case on Monday against Officer Andrew Hall, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Hall is on trial on two felony counts of voluntary manslaughter in the November 2018 death of 33-year-old Laudemer Arboleda, an unarmed Filipino man who was slowly driving away from police when Hall shot him nine times.
