Oscar Grant Verdict,Mehserle Verdict

After the suspense during the trial, Johannes Mehserle jury in Los Angeles found a former police officer BART guilty of involuntary manslaughter in January 2009, the death of Oscar Grant. Mehserle accused of shooting 22-year-old Grant's back as he lay face down on the station platform Fruitvale BART Oakland after a row broke out on the train. Mehserle pleaded not guilty, saying that he took the gun over Taser stun gun.
According to reports from the courthouse in Los Angeles, involuntary murder conviction, as well as additional confidence Meshlere to use a gun in the death of Grant may pay a penalty of 5 to 14 years. Other options before the jury entered an excuse murder, which would have carried a sentence of 3 to 11 years old and second-degree murder, which would have carried a sentence of 40 years to life imprisonment.
Last week in Los Angeles Supreme Court Judge Robert Perry ruled that Mehserle can not be convicted of first degree murder, arguing that the evidence in court showed that Mehserle not planning to kill Grant, and shot him once in the back.
At 4:30 pm, a small crowd of 50 to 100 people gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland. As word of the sentence spread through a cell phone, Oakland resident Amber Royal, who says that she lives in the area of Grant, burst into tears. Man killed in our city, and it comes with 6 years or whatever, this is bulls ** to me, "she said.
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