After three weeks of testimony from nearly 50 witnesses, a Chicago jury took just a few hours to find former police officer Jason Van Dyke guilty of 2nd degree murder and 16 aggravated assault charges in the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder, but before deliberations, jurors were instructed that they could find Van Dyke guilty on the lesser charge of second-degree murder.
After hearing two hours of closing arguments on Thursday, the jury, which had been sequestered for the entire length of the trial, began deliberating at approximately 1 p.
After hearing two hours of closing arguments on Thursday, the jury, which had been sequestered for the entire length of the trial, began deliberating at approximately 1 p.
- 10/5/2018
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
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