Denver-a former deputy of the Sheriff of Colorado convicted of death at the shooting of a 22-year-old man in trouble who called 911 for help was the sentence on Monday in prison, the maximum sentence allowed.
In February, jury members found Andrew good guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of 2022 of Christians.
The prosecutors alleged that good intensified a confrontation with Glass, which showed signs of a mental health crisis and rejected the orders of leaving their SUV near Silver Plume, a small mining city throughout or Denver.
Their parents and the agencies involved reached a $ 19 million agreement that also made changes to how officers are trained to respond to people in mental health crises.
Judge Catherine Cheroutes said that the good judgment should address both the loss of glass and the damage caused to the community for what happened.
“I think it was power. It was not a mistake. It was,” you must listen to me because I am in charge, “he said.
Good, former deputy in Clear Creek County, was convicted after a second trial.
Almost a year ago, another jury condemned him for a miscellaneous for endangering other officers to the abyra of other officers. However, jury members could not agree on a position of murder or position of official misconduct.
With the support of the Glass family, prosecutors decided to try goodly with a second degree murder position. The jurors also had the option to condemn him for the least serious position of criminally negligent homicide.
The defense argued that Glass had a knife and good was legally justified by shooting him to protect an official partner.
The convictions of the law agents for more serious charges are rare because experts say that jurors tend to give them the benefit of how they act in emergencies, experts say.
A police officer and two paramedics were sentenced in 2023 for criminally negligent homicide in Colorado in the death of Elijah McClain, a black man whose name became part of the screams of meeting for social justice that begged the United States in 2020.
One of the paramedics was also sentenced by second degree assault, which has a longer prison sentence. Later, a judge released him from prison and sentenced him to probation.