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Jury Chosen for Ex-Officer in Katrina Shooting

Opening statements are set to begin in the retrial of former New Orleans policeman David Warren who shot and killed Henry Glover four days after Hurricane Katrina.

In this March 2011 image, Edna Glover, mother of Henry Glover, leaves Federal Court holding his photo.  (Photo: AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Opening statements are set to begin Wednesday in the retrial of a former New Orleans policeman who shot and killed a man four days after Hurricane Katrina.
David Warren is charged with violating 31-year-old Henry Glover's civil rights and with using a weapon in a violent crime.
Warren was guarding a police substation from a second-floor balcony when he shot Glover in 2005. He testified that he thought Glover had a gun. He was convicted of manslaughter in 2010, but a federal appeals court overturned the conviction.
The court ruled he should have been tried separately from officers charged in a cover-up designed to make Glover's shooting appear justified.

 

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