Legal experts say Kim Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright, missed the chance to tell jurors how a Taser-gun mix-up might have occurred and what she was thinking — something jurors were likely waiting to hear.
“I didn’t think they pulled enough out of Potter because we did not get into her mind,” said Marsh Halberg, a Minneapolis defense attorney who is not connected to the case.
While the experts believed Potter’s tears were genuine, they had mixed views on how her emotions might have played for the jury. Moran said the fact that her lawyers didn’t get into Potter’s mindset was “strange,” saying she believes one of the first questions that should’ve been asked was whether Potter meant to shoot Wright.
Moran also said that Potter’s immediate reaction to the shooting, which is seen on the police videos, shows she knew she did something horribly wrong and did not intend to use her gun. She said Eldridge was strong in establishing that during her cross-examination.
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