Former Officer Who Fatally Shot Atatiana Jefferson Found Guilty Of Manslaughter
Dean’s defense attorney Bob Gill explained to jurors that the former officer was terrified when he peered into Jefferson’s apartment through her bedroom window.
“If you believe that Aaron was legitimately defending a third person, and reasonably defending a third person, or if you had a reasonable doubt about whether he was doing such, then you are to acquit Aaron,” he told jurors. “And you don’t have to agree that it was self-defense or defense of a third person. You just have to decide in your mind that he reasonably believed he was doing one of those two things.”