NEW YORK, Dec 4 (Reuters) – The New York grand jury that voted not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man heard testimony from 50 witnesses and considered 60 exhibits over the course of nine weeks of deliberations, a state judge said on Thursday. The details came in a brief order from Stephen Rooney, a judge in Staten Island, who granted the request of Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan to release publicly some details about the secret proceeding. (Reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by Bernadette Baum) Read the full order below: Garner
NEW YORK, Dec 4 (Reuters) – The New York grand jury that voted not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man heard testimony from 50 witnesses and considered 60 exhibits over the course of nine weeks of deliberations, a state judge said on Thursday.
The details came in a brief order from Stephen Rooney, a judge in Staten Island, who granted the request of Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan to release publicly some details about the secret proceeding. (Reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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