The ruling comes about two weeks after the attorneys for the former officer raised numerous concerns about the county’s new top prosecutor.
A judge on Friday rejected a former San Leandro police officer’s bid to remove Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price from overseeing his prosecution, ruling out the possibility of the state’s attorney general taking over the case.
Fletcher was charged three years ago with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Steven Taylor, 33. The case was originally filed by Price’s predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, marking the first time in more than a decade that a law enforcement officer had faced criminal prosecution in the death of a civilian.“This was a victory for us,” Kitchen said, outside the Oakland courtroom. “That’s the best thing that’s ever happened. Now we’re just waiting for a court date.
The entire encounter lasted no more than 40 seconds — during which “Mr. Taylor posed no threat of imminent deadly force or serious bodily injury to defendant Fletcher or anyone else in the store,” according to prosecutors working under O’Malley’s supervision.
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