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Minnesota’s highest court has overturned the murder conviction of a former police officer who fatally shot Australian woman Justine Ruszczyk Damond in Minneapolis in 2017.
In a shock decision, the Minnesota Supreme Court said the murder charge for Mohamed Noor did not fit the circumstances in the case.
Noor was the first police officer in the state’s history to be found guilty of murder for killing a civilian.
His conviction was followed by a 22-and-half year sentence for Derek Chauvin, the white Minneapolis police officer who was found guilty of murdering black man George Floyd by pressing his knee into his neck for almost 10 minutes.
After a trial that captivated the midwestern state in 2019, Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for shooting Damond, a dual US-Australian citizen, after she called police to report a possible sexual assault behind her home.
He was sentenced to 12½ years on the murder count but was not sentenced for manslaughter.
The case of the black policeman convicted of murder in the death of a white woman stood in contrast to the initial treatment of Chauvin after the death of Floyd, when public pressure forced the Minneapolis police department to act on the white officer.
The ruling now means Noor’s murder conviction is overturned and the case will go back to the district court where he will be sentenced on the manslaughter count.
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