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The jury will reconvene Friday morning to determine Dean's sentence. The former police officer faces two to 20 years in prison.
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Dean is charged with murder for shooting and killing Atatiana Jefferson through the window of her home while on duty in 2019.
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Aaron Dean's defense team and the state rested Tuesday, the fifth day of Dean's murder trial. Closing arguments are expected Wednesday.
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‘Is that good police work?’: Aaron Dean faces sharp questioning from prosecution in his murder trialAaron Dean is a former Fort Worth police officer charged with murder for shooting and killing Atatiana Jefferson while on duty in 2019.
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Jurors must decide whether Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean committed murder when he shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in 2019.
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Dean is a former Fort Worth police officer charged with murder in the 2019 on-duty killing of Atatiana Jefferson. Dean's attorneys argued that he couldn't get a fair trial in Tarrant County because of the extensive media coverage of the case, a request the judge denied.
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Aaron Dean’s trial had been set to begin Nov. 16 but Tarrant County court officials now say that date will only be a scheduling hearing and that Dean’s case will not go to trial before Nov. 29.
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Aaron Dean’s trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 16, more than two years after he shot 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson during a late-night wellness check at her mother’s house. His case was among many delayed as the coronavirus pandemic caused courts across the country to postpone jury trials.
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Tuesday, the Fort Worth City Council voted in support of a proposal to name a section of I-35 for Atatiana Jefferson.
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The family of Atatiana Jefferson, a Black woman, has sued the city of Fort Worth and former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean for the wrongful death of Ms. Jefferson in October of 2019.
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Judge David Hagerman said the scheduling may be fluid but that the case of former Fort Worth officer Aaron Dean “needs to be tried next year,” the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Dean resigned after he was charged with murder in the Oct. 12, 2019, shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson.