St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez is charged with second-degree manslaughter and two counts of unsafe discharge of a firearm, all felonies.
St. Anthony police Officer Jeronimo (yeh-RON'-ih-moh) Yanez is charged with killing Philando Castile following a traffic stop last July in a St. Paul suburb.
Ramsey County District Judge William H. Leary III on Tuesday granted the jury's request to view again videos of the traffic stop, as captured by the dashboard camera in Yanez's squad vehicle, and the Facebook Live post of the shooting's bloody aftermath filmed by Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, who was in the passenger seat next to him. He testified forcefully Friday that he saw Castile's gun and that Castile disregarded his commands not to pull it out of his pocket.
Yanez then fired seven shots.
The jury also watched a replay of the video that Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, livestreamed on Facebook beginning seconds after Castile had been shot. The jury was expected to begin considering the case later Monday after just five days of testimony, evidence and arguments.
Yanez faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the manslaughter charge.
"Yanez did not wait until he was sure....he got nervous and put his safety above everyone else", Paulsen said.
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Defense attorneys highlighted inconsistencies in what is said on her video and in statements later to police. Jurors will return Tuesday morning.
"He did what he was supposed to do", the prosecutor said. "I did not want to shoot Mr. Castile at all", he replied.
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Paulsen reminded the jury of a bullet wound to what would have been Castile's trigger finger - and that there was no corresponding bullet damage nor wounds in the area of Castile's right shorts pocket, where he carried his gun.
For the second-degree manslaughter charge, jurors will decide whether there was "culpable negligence" in Yanez's conduct and if he created "an unreasonable risk" and caused "death or great bodily harm" to Castile.
"We all know this is a sad case". Yanez shot Castile five times seconds after Castile told him he was carrying a gun.
"This is no longer about Philando; this is about humanity", she said.
After the shooting, the video shows Yanez standing at the auto window with his gun drawn for some time.
That BCA interview does show some discrepancies that the prosecution is depending on - such as Yanez saying he saw an "object" but not definitively saying it was a gun, as he did while on the stand.
Toward the conclusion of his closing argument, Gray told jurors that if they take in all the facts of the case they'll see that the state "failed miserably".
He said it was reasonable to deduce that Castile had smoked marijuana the day of the shooting because THC, the main psychoactive chemical in cannabis, was found in his blood.
"The determination of reasonableness must embody allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments about the force that is necessary in a particular situation under circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving", the instructions state.
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