{"id":53856,"date":"2022-12-23T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53856"},"modified":"2022-12-23T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T19:25:07","slug":"atatiana-jefferson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53856","title":{"rendered":"Sentence is appropriate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Aaron Dean lost his job as a Fort Worth police officer because he shot a woman to death while investigating an alleged disturbance.<\/p>\n

Now he gets to spend some time in a Texas prison, thanks to a sentencing decision handed down by the jury that convicted him of manslaughter in Atatania Jefferson’s death in 2019.<\/p>\n

The sentence all told will be for 11 years, 10 months and 12 days in prison. It’s a curious sentence, to be sure. But the 10-month 12-day portion of the sentence is meant to memorialize the date of Jefferson’s death, Oct. 12, 2019.<\/p>\n

Defense counsel argued for a probationary sentence. That would have been a mighty slap to a community wanted some measure of “real punishment” the white officer who shot a Black woman to death. Prosecutors wanted a 20-year maximum sentence.<\/p>\n

I’ll accept that jurors settled on an interesting compromise, which comprises a little more than half the prison time that Dean could have gotten.<\/p>\n

He’ll be eligible for parole after about five years. What happens then is anyone’s guess.<\/p>\n

For now, the ex-Fort Worth police officer has received the punishment he deserves for the crime he committed.<\/p>\n

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