Kim Potter Found Guilty Of Manslaughter I’m Daunte Wright’s Death
Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Daunte Wright.
The jury over the trial deliberated for over 27 hours.
As we reported, Potter, 49, fatally shot 20-year-old Wright during an traffic in April in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. She claims she intended to grab her taser, but fired her gun instead.
The maximum sentence for first-degree manslaughter is 15 years in prison and/or a $30,000 fine. However, as Potter does not have criminal history, Minnesota sentencing guidelines will recommend around 6 to 8.5 years in prison.
A legal expert previously said that Thursday would be a big day per KSTP.
‘I think that judge Chu will get involved. That’s especially true if the jury comes back and they say to the judge, we can’t decide. I don’t think she’s going to reach out to them – they’re going to have to reach out to her and say there’s nowhere for us to go,’ said Jack Rice, a defense attorney who is not associated with the trial. ‘We’ve looked at every piece of evidence we reconsidered it multiple times. Everybody has reconsidered their own feelings and their own decisions. And we are simply stuck.’