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Wednesday 31 May 2017

Officer’s attorneys want Castile gun permit evidence omitted

in his trial. ments about the permit
Castile, a black 32-year-old should be omitted. Oth-
elementary school cafete- erwise, he said, bringing
ria worker, was killed July 6 up the permit would be
during a traffic stop in the “opening the door” for de-
St. Paul suburb of Falcon fense attorneys to argue
Heights after he told Yanez that Castile lied about al-
he had a gun. leged past marijuana use
The shooting’s gruesome when he applied for the
aftermath was streamed permit.
live on Facebook by Cas- Prosecutor Jeff Paulsen
tile’s girlfriend, said the state doesn’t be-
Diamond Reynolds, who lieve it’s appropriate to edit
was in the car with her language from evidence.
young daughter. He added that Castile
Yanez, who is Latino, is never got a chance to say
charged with second-de- he had a permit before he
gree manslaughter and was shot.
two lesser counts of endan- Ramsey County District
gering safety. Court Judge William H.
The video recorded by Leary III said he was lean-
Reynolds shows a bloody ing toward granting the
Castile slumped over and defense request, but he
St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez, left, and his attorney Tom Kelly, right, leave the Ramsey moaning in the moments wants to hear more from
County Courthouse, Tuesday, May 30, 2017, in St. Paul, Minn. Jury selection began Tuesday in the after he was shot. prosecutors Wednesday
trial of officer Yanez, charged with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Philando Castile Reynolds tells Yanez as before ruling.
during a traffic stop in the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights last July. The shooting of the black mo-
torist generated national attention when the aftermath was streamed live on Facebook. she’s recording that Castile Yanez’s trial began Tues-
was reaching for his ID as day with the start of jury se-
By AMY FORLITI ing whether Castile acted be allowed to hear state- the officer requested, not lection. Fifty potential jurors
Associated Press properly during the July ments about Castile’s con- his gun. were sworn in and each
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Phi- traffic stop and others won- cealed carry permit. She also says: “He’s li- given a questionnaire. Most
lando Castile’s permit to le- dering whether the officer Defense attorney Earl Gray censed. of them were white.
gally carry a gun became followed his training. argued that Yanez, 29, He’s carried. He is licensed They will be questioned in-
a point of focus in the days But as the trial of St. Antho- didn’t know Castile had a to carry.” Authorities later dividually starting Wednes-
after he was shot and killed ny officer Jeronimo Yanez permit to carry at the time found that Castile had a day. One potential juror
by a Minnesota police of- began Tuesday, his attor- of the shooting, so evi- gun permit. was dismissed because she
ficer, with some question- neys asked that jurors not dence about it is irrelevant Gray said Reynolds’ state- is related to Yanezq

Man who killed 4 people sentenced to death in Nebraska

By MARGERY A. BECK four counts of first-degree “Each one of these mur- appeal. Jenkins pleaded no con-
Associated Press murder for the August 2013 ders was a planned and “You’re not doing my ap- test in 2014, but his sentenc-
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A shooting deaths. deliberate act,” Douglas peal,” Jenkins said to Doug- ing has been delayed for
man convicted of killing The judicial panel had the County District Judge Peter las County Public Defender years because of concerns
four people in Omaha in option of sentencing Jen- Bataillon said Tuesday dur- Thomas Riley. Appeals are about his mental compe-
2013 was sentenced to kins to death or life in prison. ing the hearing. automatically filed in death tency. His defense psychia-
death Tuesday by a three- The judges cited the hei- Jenkins, who was visibly penalty cases in Nebraska. trist said Jenkins suffers from
judge panel — Nebraska’s nous nature of the killings in thinner than when he was The judicial panel ordered schizophrenia and perhaps
first death penalty sen- their decision and said they first arrested, showed no Riley to handle the appeal, a bipolar disorder. Defense
tence handed down since believed state psychiatrists emotion as he was sen- despite Jenkins’ objection. lawyers have noted Jen-
the punishment was rein- who testified that while tenced. The only words In addition to death for kins’ habit of tattooing his
stated by voters in Novem- Jenkins does have narcis- he said loud enough to each of the four counts of face and self-mutilation
ber. sistic and anti-social per- be heard from the gallery murder, Jenkins also was while in prison, as well as his
The panel issued its ruling sonality disorders, he knew were directed at his public sentenced to at least 450 ramblings in court, as proof
in the case of Nikko Jen- right from wrong when he defender, when he refused years for a dozen weapons of a deteriorating mental
kins, who was convicted of committed the crimes. to sign paperwork to file an counts in the case. state.q