梁彼得案英文报道：Peter Liang 被判缓刑5年免于坐牢

梁彼得案英文报道：Peter Liang 被判缓刑5年免于坐牢

Brooklyn 法官将原先的过失杀人罪(manslaughter)降低为刑事疏忽杀人罪(criminally negligent homicide)后，前纽约警察梁彼得将免于坐牢。 

A former New York police officer will not serve time in prison after a Brooklyn judge on Tuesday reduced the conviction from manslaughter to criminally negligent homicide.

A file photo shows the former New York police officer Peter Liang.

Brooklyn Supreme court Justice Danny Chun sentenced Chinese-American former NYPD officer Peter Liang to five years of probation and at least 800 hours community service over the death of Akai Gerley.

Liang was previously convicted in February of manslaughter for the accidental shooting of Gerley in a pitch-dark stairwell in 2014.

He is the first policeman from the New York Police department to be convicted of homicide in the shooting of a civilian since 2005.

The reduced sentencing came after a massive rally in more than 30 U.S. cities in February over the manslaughter conviction, which protesters believed was too harsh and unfair to Liang.

The court had heard a ricocheted bullet from Liang's service weapon accidentally killed Gurley when he was patrolling in a housing project in the New York City borough of Brooklyn in November 2014.

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