GUILTY MN - Daunte Wright, 20, fatally shot by police during traffic stop, Brooklyn Center, Apr 2021 #2

[turaj]

The jury reached an outcome around noon Thursday, and it will be read on the record between 1:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. This could be hung too.

 

[whitelilac]

@LouRaguse

“A trial outcome has been reached and will be read on the record today between 1:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. CST.”

@OmarJimenez

The trial outcome will be read in court between 2:30 and 3pm ET.

What does this mean...."outcome", rather than verdict?
Might this be a hung jury?

 

[sds71]

What does this mean...."outcome", rather than verdict?
Might this be a hung jury?

@LouRaguse
I confirmed the wording was chosen long before today. So this could be actual verdict

I confirmed through sources this will be a verdict, not a hung jury, at 130pm in the Kim Potter trial

 

[Jax49]

IMHO, they've reached a verdict.

ETA: Now we know it is a verdict, I'm not even guessing what it will be.

 

[Marysmith]

Thank you everyone for the updates!!

 

[Shaddow]

VERDICT REACHED! READING AT 1:30pm CT/2:30pm ET

 

[Cortne]

Yes. Thank you all so much for the updates. Much appreciated.

 

[smeck]

Justice for Daunte......praying

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

The verdict should be not guilty imo. She did not shoot him consciously, and the charges require it to be conscious action. She and/or the city should have to pay something, but that should be tried in civil court, not criminal.

 

[turaj]

I will be shocked if it is not guilty...really shocked but anything possible. I have to wonder who can actually confirm it is not hung short of the court and lawyers involved? If a verdict must have been some real mind changing going on in there.

 

[Shaddow]

Potter a 26 year veteran of the police force...should have known she had the gun in her hand and not her taser. I believe in an interview she said she saw the gun in her hand.

She is guilty. She is remorseful. But she still took a life... If it were one of us who handled a gun so carelessly and killed someone...we would probably go to prison.

 

[Shaddow]

I will be shocked if it is not guilty...really shocked but anything possible. I have to wonder who can actually confirm it is not hung short of the court and lawyers involved? If a verdict must have been some real mind changing going on in there.

Do you think someone who wanted to vote guilty─could be changed to voting not guilty?

 

[nightowl1975]

Do you think someone who wanted to vote guilty─could be changed to voting not guilty?

I think it’s far more likely someone could be convinced to vote not guilty vs the other way around.

 

[LMDlong]

IMO As an officer and trainer she was negligent. I have no idea which way this verdict is going to go.

 

[tara83]

Potter a 26 year veteran of the police force...should have known she had the gun in her hand and not her taser. I believe in an interview she said she saw the gun in her hand.

She is guilty. She is remorseful. But she still took a life... If it were one of us who handled a gun so carelessly and killed someone...we would probably go to prison.

Exactly.If I wrongly shot someone by mistake using a real gun versus a taser I have no doubt my butt would go to prison.What makes her any different?

 

[PrairieWind]

I think it’s far more likely someone could be convinced to vote not guilty vs the other way around.

I would agree.

 

[whitelilac]

live here:

 

[CrimeAway]

Another link

 

[Jax49]

Here we go. Jury entering courtroom.

ETA: CNN is covering.

 

[Smelly Squirrel]

She obviously did something wrong, but going by the law, she had to have conscious intent here, she had to "commit a conscious or intentional act in connection with the handling or use of a firearm that creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk that she is aware of" for the first charge, and that she "consciously took a chance of causing death or great bodily harm" for the second. But that's not what happened here.

Involuntary manslaughter involves knowing doing something risky, she didn't do that.

But the jury did not agree with me.