Kim Potter Trial

The jury in the Kim Potter trial entered a third day of deliberations Wednesday as they decide whether to convict the former Brooklyn Center police officer of manslaughter in Daunte Wright's traffic stop shooting death.

Legal experts in the Twin Cities suggest that the jurors may be split over a verdict of guilty or not guilty on the charges of first and second degree manslaughter former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter faces.

The jury in the Kim Potter trial has wrapped their third day of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict. They will remain sequestered & continue their efforts on Thursday morning.

In court Tuesday afternoon, the jurors asked Judge Chu the protocol if they were unable to reach a consensus on the verdict in the Potter trial.

Jurors wrapped up five-plus hours of deliberations on Monday without a decision in the trial of Kim Potter and are set to return Tuesday morning, Judge Chu said Monday deliberations would go until 6 p.m. and jurors are being sequestered at a hotel for the length of deliberations.

Kim Potter’s testimony on Friday was notably scant on a key element of her defense – that she made a mistake when she drew her handgun instead of her Taser and killed Wright during a traffic stop last April in Brooklyn Center.

The defense rested their case Friday in the manslaughter trial of Kim Potter after the former Brooklyn Center police officer concluded her testimony on the deadly traffic stop shooting of Daunte Wright.

The defense called its first witnesses Thursday in the trial of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter, who is accused of shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop earlier this year. 

The state called its final witnesses Wednesday including a use-of-force expert in the manslaughter trial of Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer accused of shooting and killing 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, but they did not rest their case.

The manslaughter trial of Kimberly Potter, the former Brooklyn Center police officer charged in the deadly shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, began on Tuesday, Nov. 30.

Prosecutors called more witnesses Tuesday in the trial of Kim Potter as they continue to try to poke holes in the former Brooklyn Center police officer’s claim that she mistook her gun for her Taser when she fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last year.

The Kim Potter trial enters its second week, with Day 4 of testimony in Minneapolis. The former Brooklyn Center police officer is charged with manslaughter in the killing of Daunte Wright for firing her gun instead of her taser.