Jury finds defendant in police shooting guilty
Algiers man is guilty of shooting officer
by The Times-Picayune
Thursday March 13, 2008, 9:46 PM
By Gwen Filosa
Staff writer
A 25-year-old Algiers man single-handedly tried to murder a New Orleans police officer nine months after Hurricane Katrina, leaving the officer paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, a unanimous jury found Thursday.
After three hours of deliberations at Orleans Parish Criminal District Court — and a four-day trial that included 23 state witnesses and 123 exhibits — the jury found Eddie Harrison III guilty as charged of attempted first-degree murder of a police officer.
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