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A judge declined to toss the federal sentence of ex-officer Michael Slager in fatal Walter Scott shooting | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Jamiel Lynch and Jason Hanna, CNN A federal judge Monday declined to toss out the prison sentence of a former South Carolina police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black man in the back in 2015. The judge denied a motion in which former North Charleston police Officer Michael Slager asked that his 20-year prison sentence […]

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