Gonna toss to Lisa Pamplin,
one of the attorneys who's
talking right now. He is grateful.
We are grateful that a jury took.
Their time and. I mean
that's somebody at 4 words
is going to have to.
This is going to calm down a lot of
things that could have happened.
And I just think that as a whole,
as a community, we just need to
bring some life to some of the things
that's happened in this courtroom
during the break here and there.
There's two different people, you know,
two different sides and for work, you know.
And so everybody has to be treated fairly.
Being a police officer doesn't give you
the right to sit down with your family
when you've been in custody and have.
Much with your family every day when
the car family can't do that at all.
And so I think that that should
be looked into.
Sheriff Wayburn, that's a reflection
on how we do different things.
And I've, I've tried cases a lot,
never seen this happen before.
I've had it where my clients
couldn't even touch their parents,
their sisters or their brothers,
let alone eat with them at lunch.
Charity that got to be addressed.
We haven't officially heard
from the jury, but the 11 years,
10 months and 12 days.
That kind of correlates with the
fact that she was killed October 12.
What are your thoughts on that?
I mean, I think.
Like I just think they they jurors
usually hang their hat on something
and they sat there and it's like
the 11 everything haven't quite
figured it out yet but I think they.
Did that on purpose, Lisa?
Is this sentence justice for a Tony?
No, 20 would have been justice.
I mean 20 would have been justice
you know have manslaughter and
justice should have been murdered
599 of life but it wasn't so
the jury they had hard you know
decision like I said and he
1111 years knowing that
that this man would not
be out pending appeal is huge.
Is it going today too?
As you kind of walked into the
courtroom waiting for for that
final sentence to be read,
varying. I mean, we were very anxious.
It's, you know, sitting out here
with all these folks every day.
It's, I mean, stressful that today when
we heard today ordered dinner, I'm like,
wow, they do plan on being there.
When the jury asked for the
body Cam and general orders,
what went through your mind?
Thanks for your orders during
the guilt innocence phase.
Then I said maybe they was going
through general wars just to see
how many violations he came up with,
maybe giving him a year for each violation.
I, you know, I was just trying
to think of anything why they
wanted the general orders.
I could see the body Cam,
but I didn't.
I never got an understanding
why they needed to generate a
lot of times officers across the
country involved in shooting deaths.
They're not convicted.
What message does this send
to the rest of the country?
What is shoe sin first
of all to Fort Worth,
it's to change their policies.
I'm a former police officer and
what are Aaron Deed did was.
I mean it's unbelievable that they had
first of all two rookies side-by-side.
That normally doesn't happen.
You should have a more experienced
training officer out there.
But just everything he did,
a common sense approach would have
been to knock on the door, you know,
called dispatch and say hey can do
you have a phone number for this?
Can you get us a phone number, go talk to Mr.
James again and say hey do
you you know something?
But Aaron Dean,
it's a hard chart.
So we were
hearing there from Lisa Pamplin and basically
she is been a court observer here for days.
She has been here every single
day of this trial and she is
an attorney here in Fort Worth.
And she was saying that she hopes that
this verdict will lead to some change.
That she was upset that there were two
rookies that responded to this call,
had a more veteran officer
been there than perhaps.
This wouldn't have happened
that Aaron D violated policy.
The jury believed that that
he had violated policy,
that he put himself in danger,
that he put himself in that situation.
That a Tatiana Jefferson had a split second,
didn't realize that he was a police officer.
He says he killed her in self-defense,
but the jury thinks otherwise.
They think he was reckless in his
actions and gave him 11 years,
10 months, and 12 days.
That is more than Amber Geiger got and
Amber Geiger was convicted of murder.
In this case he was sentenced.
He was convicted of manslaughter.
Roy Oliver who killed a 12 year old
Jordan at World 16 year old Jordan
Edwards received a 15 year prison
sentence that he too was a convicted of
murder in Dallas County a few years back.
So the jury sending what they believe is
a significant sentence to Aaron Dean,
but others thinking that he should
have gotten the maximum of 20
years that that would have been
a more appropriate sentence.
But.
This is what the jury determined
and they spent a lot of time coming
up with that particular sentence.
So is he.
That is where we stand here at in
Tarrant County and we will definitely
get reaction from everybody and
bring you more in depth report
later on in our other newscast.