Monday
Jun142004
Possible Mattingly Trial -Officer shot dead Black teenager in the back
Monday, June 14, 2004 at 05:11AM
Officer shot dead Black teenager in the back. The 7th Black man killed by Louisville police in past 5 years.
Attorneys are drafting questions to gauge the impact of publicity on prospective jurors in the murder case of a former police officer charged with shooting a Black teenager in the back. Mattingly, a former Louisville narcotics detective, is charged with murder in the January shooting of Michael Newby, 19, outside a liquor store. The shooting sparked protests led by civil-rights activists. Newby was the seventh black man fatally shot by Louisville police in the past five years, but Mattingly is the first officer charged in any of those cases. [more]
Attorneys are drafting questions to gauge the impact of publicity on prospective jurors in the murder case of a former police officer charged with shooting a Black teenager in the back. Mattingly, a former Louisville narcotics detective, is charged with murder in the January shooting of Michael Newby, 19, outside a liquor store. The shooting sparked protests led by civil-rights activists. Newby was the seventh black man fatally shot by Louisville police in the past five years, but Mattingly is the first officer charged in any of those cases. [more]