Louisville Cop who Killed Michael Newby will Go Free - Not Guilty

•  Prosecutors Bail Out -  Told the jury during closing arguments that Mattingly was NOT guilty of murder

A former Louisville police detective was acquitted of murder, manslaughter and reckless homicide Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a teenage drug suspect that stoked racial tensions in the city. The former detective, McKenzie Mattingly, showed no emotion as the verdicts were read. The jurors returned the partial verdict after more than eight hours of deliberations; the judge declared a mistrial on a separate charge of wanton endangerment after the jury was unable to reach agreement on that count. The jury was composd of 9 whites and 3 Blacks. Mattingly was charged with shooting 19-year-old Michael Newby three times in the back Jan. 3 during an undercover drug buy. The trial had been closely watched in Louisville's Black community. Outside the courthouse, as he got into his vehicle, Newby's stepfather, Jerry Bouggess, said: "There are murderers out here." [more ] and [more ] and [more ]

• Prosecutors, in an eleventh-hour turnaround, told jurors during closing arguments that they should not find Mattingly guilty of murder but convict him of a lesser charge. "I do not think that is what he is guilty of," said Scott Davis, an assistant prosecutor. Prosecutors eventually must decide whether to retry McKenzie Mattingly on the wanton endangerment charge. Attorneys will meet Monday with Circuit Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman to discuss what may happen next in the case
• A $5 million wrongful-death lawsuit filed in federal court by Michael Newby's family is pending against Mattingly and the Louisville metro government.
• Officials could not track down some witnesses to the shooting. Jefferson County prosecutors rested their murder case against former police Detective McKenzie Mattingly yesterday without calling two eyewitnesses and the man who was with 19-year-old Michael Newby when Mattingly shot him. When Newby was killed Jan. 3, Donitra Mullins and her brother, Alonzo Mullins, told police they saw the shooting unfold. But when prosecutors tried to subpoena the Mullinses, they could not find them, said Steve Tedder, spokesman for the Commonwealth's Attorney's office. In a statement given to police after the shooting, Donitra Mullins, 23, described seeing a white man and a black man struggling. "Then it looked like the black guy was getting ready to run or whatever, and then that's when I seen the gunshot coming out, the gun the white man had in his hand," Donitra Mullins told police the morning of the shooting. Mullins said Newby had his back to Mattingly. [more ]
• Over the past 7 Years at least 10 Black or Latino Men have been Killed by Louisville Police. No Officers have been Convicted [more]

Comments

[C.H.Ubaca]

This is all very true. Knowing that I originate from one of the two genre of people, I feel that we need to stop this.

[Dale Rhoades]

Michael Newby was nothing more than a drug dealing, armed robbing,police fighting thug that happened to be black. Chances are when you try to rob a cop and take his gun you are going to get shot. Hats off to the Louisville Police firearms instructors. The police haven't accidently shot innocents in their never ending war on drugs and gangs.