Mohamed Noor, the ex-Minneapolis officer who fatally shot a woman while responding to her 911 call in 2017, is resentenced on a lesser charge after his earlier murder conviction was thrown out by the Minnesota Supreme Court
Mohamed Noor was originally sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for shooting and killing Justine Ruszczyk in July 2017. Last month, the Minnesota Supreme Court vacated Noor's third-degree murder conviction, ruling there was insufficient evidence to sustain the conviction and ordering Noor be sentenced on his conviction for second-degree manslaughter, a lesser charge.
Read More"These factors of endangering the public make your crime of manslaughter appropriate for a high-end" of the sentencing guidelines, she said. Noor's lawyer argued at trial that a"perfect storm" of events led to the officer opening fire on Ruszczyk, who had called 911 the night of July 15, 2017, to report a possible assault in progress in an alley behind her home.
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