Kim Potter, the Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of fatally shooting 20-year-old Daunte Wright, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. According to reports, the prosecution is asking for an 86-month sentence after previously stating they would seek a sentence well over the state guidelines.
Roughly two months after she was convicted of first and second-degree manslaughter, Potter will receive her sentence from Judge Regina Chu on Friday at 9 AM. Chu presided over Potter's trial and ordered the former police officer be taken into custody immediately following her guilty verdict. After much bluster from the prosecution over the sentencing they'd seek, on Feb 15 a motion was filed for a standard presumptive sentence of 86 months.
In a statement regarding the sentencing, the Attorney General's office stated, "the appropriate sentence has to be the presumptive sentence set by the legislature until Defendant Potter can convince the Court that society’s interests, including those of Daunte Wright’s family and friends, can be met by some other disposition."
Source: kare11.com
