A sequestered jury will continue deliberating Thursday for a former Fort Worth police officer's murder trial.
Attorneys gave closing arguments Wednesday morning in the Aaron Dean murder trial. Now, jurors are deciding his fate.inside her mother's home in October 2019.
Smith and Ashlea Deener tag-teamed closing arguments for the prosecution. It was highly charged and emotional."She was in her own home. If we can't feel safe there, where in the world are we going to feel safe?" Deener said. He said he was justified in shooting through a window at Jefferson’s silhouette because he saw a gun pointed at him, a gun Jefferson’s nephew said she took from her purse when she heard noises outside.
The defense urged jurors to believe the initial interview with Zion Carr, Jefferson’s then 8-year-old nephew, when he told a forensic examiner that Jefferson pointed her gun at the window, which was contrary to his courtroom testimony."At the window," Carr responded."You could tell he was under a lot of pressure and a lot of time had passed. So Zion succumbed to the pressure and testified differently from the truth," Gil said.
Closing arguments in the murder trial of the former Fort Worth police officer are expected to begin on Wednesday morning.The final witness was Dr. Jay Coons a use-of-force expert. He summarized that Dean and his partner acted appropriately with regard to their police training and under the circumstances in the moments leading up to Jefferson’s fatal shooting.
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