“Finally, the court observes, based on its nearly thirty years on the bench, that an urban heroin dealer not in possession of a firearm would be an anomaly.” Two DNA analysts testified that the absence of someone’s DNA on a gun doesn’t mean that person did not touch it. ” an urban heroin dealer not in possession of a firearm would be an anomaly”ĭefense attorneys said Stockley acted “reasonably” in self-defense in killing the drug suspect he believed was reaching for a hidden handgun.Īs for the argument that Stockley planted a gun in Smith’s car, prosecutors argued the presence of Stockley’s DNA on the revolver in Smith’s car, and the absence of Smith’s DNA on it, proved it was planted. They asserted a “kill shot” was fired at close range after the first four shots were fired in close succession and struck Smith in the shoulder. 38-caliber revolver in Smith’s Buick after police pulled Smith’s body from the car. Prosecutors said Stockley carried out the premeditated murder of Smith by shooting him five times at close range and then planting a. Police used pepper spray to clear the roadway and to attempt to quell the protest that rapidly progressed from peaceful to violent.
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Protesters took to the streets, blocking police from approaching, damaging a police car by smashing its windshield as they climbed all over the vehicle, and breaking windows of, and throwing paint on, the house of the city’s mayor. Agonizingly, this court has pored over the evidence again and again…This court, in conscience, cannot say that the state has proven every element of murder beyond a reasonable doubt or that the defendant did not act in self-defense.” “This court, as the trier of fact, is simply not firmly convinced of defendant’s guilt. Louis Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson found him not guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the December 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith.
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Stockley waived his right to a trial by jury, and St. The protesters say that Stockley shot and killed Smith in cold blood, because the suspect was black.įox News’ Will Carr, during the Friday Night protests, asked one person that if the fleeing suspect had been white, would he have been shot, and the protester responded, “No, they would have taken him alive.” Found not guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the December 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith
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