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Jury deliberations begin in murder retrial of former Ohio deputy who fatally shot Black man
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Jury deliberations begin in murder retrial of former Ohio deputy who fatally shot Black man

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the murder retrial of a former sheriff’s deputy in Ohio charged in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. More than two years after a tumultuous first proceeding ended in mistrial, Jason Meade is once again awaiting a jury’s verdict. The former Franklin County sheriff’s deputy and Baptist pastor, who is white, is charged with murder and reckless homicide for shooting Goodson, who was Black, five times in the back as he tried to enter his grandmother’s house in December 2020. Goodson’s death, one of several involving Black people killed by white Ohio law enforcement officers over the previous decade, came at the end of a year in which mass protests swept the nation over the murder of George Floyd. Goodson’s family in 2024 reached a $7 million civil settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit against the county. Meade’s defense team opted not to have him testify this time around.…

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