Officer Sentenced in Shooting Case
by TChris
A former police officer convicted of negligent homicide for shooting a 14-year-old boy while placing him in handcuffs has been sentenced to five years of probation and 60 days in jail. The Houston officer was also ordered to write a letter of apology to the boy's parents.
Prosecutor Don Smyth asked the judge Thursday to give Carbonneau six months in jail, the maximum jail sentence allowed under probation. Smyth also suggested several other conditions the judge declined to impose, including an open letter of apology to the residents of Harris County. ''They think their police officers are gun-toting, trigger-happy fools," Smyth said after the sentencing. "He's put everybody in fear and he owes everybody an apology."
The jury recommended only probation.
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