Lawyers for ex-police officer who fatally shot Australian wanted to recreate scene using same car, location and lighting conditions
Lawyers for the ex-police officer who fatally shot Australian Justine Damond in the US have abandoned their bid to re-enact the event using a squad car in moonlight conditions similar to the night of her death.
Mohamed Noor’s lawyers had asked for urgent access to the SUV, because the moon would be in the same phase as the night in July 2017 when Noor shot Damond in a Minneapolis alley. But Hennepin County Judge Kathryn Quaintance ruled late on Friday that Noor and his lawyers could only have access to a similar Ford Explorer squad car to the one Noor was in one the night, and they could examine it at a police precinct rather than take it to the alley.
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