New trial ordered for white homeowner in death of black man
RALEIGH — A white homeowner who fatally shot an unarmed black man after reporting “hoodlums” in his neighborhood should get a new trial because the prosecutor gratuitously injected race in his closing argument, North Carolina’s second-highest court ruled Tuesday.In the split 2-1 decision, the panel of the state Court of Appeals ruled that Raleigh resident Chad Copley, 42, deserves another trial in the August 2016 shooting death of Kouren Thomas, 20. Copley was convicted last […]
