Trooper Pleads Guilty in traffic stop shooting

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The judge remanded the ex officer to custody till sentencing......Its assumed some jail time will be handed down...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A white former state trooper was led out of a South Carolina courtroom in handcuffs Monday after pleading guilty to a felony charge in the 2014 shooting an unarmed black driver seconds after a traffic stop.

Sean Groubert will be sentenced later, but Circuit Judge Casey Manning appears to have already decided there should be some prison time because he sent Groubert to jail while he mulls the punishment. Groubert faces up to 20 years for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. There is no minimum sentence.



The shooting took place in mere seconds after the two first spoke.....it would seem the officer had PTSD from a shooting a year earlier but it is not known by this "reporter, " if this will be taken into account on sentencing....
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