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The sentence issued Friday is below the range of six to 8 1/2 years in prison recommended by state guidelines but Judge Regina Chu found mitigating factors exist that gave her the authority to go lower
Kim Potter was convicted of both first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the April 11 killing of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist.
Kim Potter was convicted in December of first- and second-degree manslaughter.
Potter will be sentenced only on the most serious charge of first-degree manslaughter, which carries a presumptive penalty of just over seven years in prison.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kim Potter, the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright, was sentenced Friday to