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Law

Attorney General Won't Retry Kerrick

Randall Kerrick

The North Carolina Attorney General’s office has announced it will not retry a white police officer who shot an unarmed African-American man in Charlotte. Officer Randall Kerrick shot and killed Jonathan Ferrell in 2013 after responding to a breaking-and-entering call.

The voluntary manslaughter trial of Kerrick ended in a mistrial last week. The hung jury was stuck at 8-to-4 in favor of an acquittal.

“In consideration of the jurors’ comments, the evidence available to the state, and our background in criminal trials, it is our prosecutors’ unanimous belief a retrial will not yield a different result,” wrote Robert Montgomery, senior deputy attorney general, in a letter to the Mecklenburg County District Attorney. “While our prosecutors tried to seek a conviction, it appears a majority of jurors did not believe the criminal conviction was the appropriate verdict.”

Dave DeWitt is WUNC's Supervising Editor for Politics and Education. As an editor, reporter, and producer he's covered politics, environment, education, sports, and a wide range of other topics.
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