Jurors in Slager trial deliberate after monthlong trial
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Jurors in the Michael Slager murder trial will resume deliberating the fate of the white former North Charleston police officer whose fatal shooting of a black motorist was captured on cellphone video.
Slager is charged in the death of 50-year-old Walter Scott, who was shot five times in the back as he ran from a traffic stop in April of last year.
Although Slager was charged with murder, Circuit Judge Clifton Newman told the jury with 11 white members and one
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