Former Huntsville police officer William Darby is serving a 25-year sentence for the murder of Jeff Parker. On Thursday, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals will hear oral arguments in Darby’s efforts to overturn his conviction.
in prison. He shot and killed Parker on April 3, 2018, after the man called police, threatening to shoot himself in his own home.in an interview last week that the city “knew it was a bad shoot right out of the gate.” He compared the city’s decision to back Darby to “going all in on a high-stakes game of poker.”
“The impact of these arguments and then any decision that comes out of them is twofold,” said Nick Lough, one of Darby’s attorneys. “It directly impacts William Darby, who is sitting in prison right now, and it may also impact law enforcement around the state of Alabama.” In the criminal trial, Judge Pate instructed the jury on Alabama self-defense law, which says that a person is justified in using deadly force if they reasonably believe another person is using or about to use unlawful deadly force. There is not a special standard for police in Alabama’s self-defense law.If the appeals court sides with Darby’s lawyers, the judges could order a new trial and send instructions for the trial court on how to instruct the jury.
Body camera video shows Darby grab a shotgun from his patrol car, sprint to the house and shout for Parker to drop his gun. Darby fired the fatal shot 11 seconds after entering the house,About a month after the shooting, the Huntsville police department’s internal review board — a panel of three captains — decided that Darby
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