Attorneys draft questions for possible jurors in Mattingly trial
Tuesday, June 15, 2004 at 03:25AM
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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]
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