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(Dec. 3) -- Put the riots on hold.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry denied bail to former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle today, the Oakland Tribune reported. As a result, Mehserle must remain behind bars as his appeal for his involuntary manslaughter conviction goes forward.
Mehserle was sentenced to just two years in prison for the Jan. 1, 2009, killing of BART passenger Oscar Grant, who, along with a rowdy group of revelers, had been removed from a train at the Fruitvale station in Oakland, Calif.
With Grant lying face down on the platform, Mehserle shot Grant in the back. Mehserle contended that the shooting was an accident and claimed he had been reaching for his stun gun and mistakenly removed his pistol instead.
Michael Rains, Mehserle's lawyer, had sought to have his client freed from prison because Mehserle posed no threat to the public, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Siding with Mehserle's explanation of events, Judge Perry, who handed down Mehserle's sentence, disregarded the gun charges against the officer that would have added years to his time in prison.
Both the verdict in the case and the sentencing resulted in sporadic rioting in downtown Oakland following bitter protests over what some residents considered a miscarriage of justice.
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Johannes Mehserle Denied Bail
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