All eyes are now on Kim Potter as the former suburban Minneapolis police officer is expected to testify in her own defense Friday.
and killing Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, in April when she mistook her Taser for her handgun.
One of her attorneys, Earl Gray, chimed in to tell the judge,"For the record, we have thought at length about that, and she wants to testify." "No matter how great the defense is, if you fumble on the stand here in front of the jury, you’re never going to win them back," Barhoma told Fox News Digital."It’s a do-or-die strategy."
Randy Zellin, the head of the criminal practice at Wilk Auslander LLP and an adjunct professor of law at Cornell University, said Potter's best chance of being acquitted lies in making her own connection with the jury from the witness stand. In this screen grab, police body cam video is shown in court on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021 at Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota, of former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter reacting after a traffic stop in which Daunte Wright was shot on April 11, 2021.
The shooting occurred in Brooklyn Center in April, only about 10 miles away from where Derek Chauvin was being tried for murder charges in the death of George Floyd.
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