Former St. Louis officer Stockley found not guilty

http://www.kmov.com/story/36336844/sources-expect-judge-to-render-verdict-in-stockley-case-friday

ST. LOUIS MO –  (KMOV-TV.  Please click on the link for the full story and live feed from the Channel 4 News team.  Here is an excerpt below)

A St. Louis judge has acquitted former police officer Jason Stockley in the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Smith.

“This court, as the trier of fact, is simply not firmly convinced of defendant’s guilt. Agonizingly, this court has poured over the evidence again and again. This court has viewed the video evidence from the restaurant’s surveillance camera, the cameras in the police vehicle, and the cell phone video by the lay witness, over and over again – innumerable times,” read a portion of the court document.

Stockley, a former St. Louis Police Officer, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Anthony Smith, who was shot and killed following a police chase in 2011.