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Defense: Exclude Confederate Flag Shirt at Officer’s Retrial
By: Associated Press
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CINCINNATI (AP) – Attorneys for a white former University of Cincinnati policeman charged with killing an unarmed black man say jurors at his retrial shouldn’t see the T-shirt with a Confederate flag emblem that he was wearing under his uniform.
Ray Tensing’s lawyers argue the shirt doesn’t have evidentiary value and should be excluded to preserve a fair trial.
A photo of the shirt was shown at Tensing’s first trial during testimony about what he was wearing when he shot Sam Dubose during a July 2015 traffic stop. The photo spurred debate about the shirt’s relevance.
Tensing has said he feared for his life as DuBose tried to drive away and that the shirt’s flag emblem meant nothing to him.
His first trial ended with a hung jury.