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COLUMBUS, Ohio — <\/span>A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the murder retrial<\/a> of a former sheriff\u2019s deputy in Ohio charged in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. <\/p>\n

More than two years after a tumultuous first proceeding ended in mistrial<\/a>, Jason Meade is once again awaiting a jury’s verdict. The former Franklin County sheriff’s deputy and Baptist pastor, who is white, is charged with murder and reckless homicide for shooting Goodson, who was Black, five times in the back as he tried to enter his grandmother\u2019s house in December 2020. <\/p>\n

Goodson’s death, one of several involving Black people killed by white Ohio law enforcement officers over the previous decade, came at the end of a year in which mass protests swept the nation over the murder of George Floyd<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Goodson\u2019s family in 2024 reached a $7 million civil settlement<\/a> in a federal civil rights lawsuit against the county. <\/p>\n

Meade\u2019s defense team opted not to have him testify this time around. During his first trial in 2024, Meade testified<\/a> that he pursued Goodson after he waved a gun as the two drove past one another, fearing his life and the lives of others were in danger. Meade said he eventually shot Goodson because he turned toward him with a gun. <\/p>\n

\u201cJason had to decide, ladies and gentlemen, whether the gun he had already seen twice was going to be the gun that killed him,\u201d defense attorney Mark Collins told jurors during closing arguments Wednesday. \u201cHe had no pause button. He had no crystal ball. And he had no duty to wait for the first shot. The law does not require perfection from our law enforcement officers. It requires reasonableness.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the jury must acquit.<\/p>\n

Special prosecutor Howard Tim Merkle, a lawyer for the state, asked jurors, “Who\u2019s got a motive here to deceive?\u201d He argued that the defense had failed to make its case that Meade was defending his life when he shot Goodson.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what evidence is there against the idea, the suggestion that Casey turned and pointed the gun?\u201d Merkle asked. \u201cWe can start with he’s got six shots in his back. They’re not in his front.” One of the six shots was in Goodson’s side. <\/p>\n

There is no bodycam video of the shooting, and prosecutors have repeatedly asserted that Meade is the only person who testified Goodson was holding a gun. His family and legal team have said he was holding a Subway sandwich bag in one hand and his keys in the other when he was fatally shot. They do not dispute that Goodson may have been carrying a gun but note that he had a license to carry a firearm.<\/p>\n

Goodson\u2019s weapon was found under his body on his grandmother\u2019s kitchen floor with the safety mechanism engaged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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