Ex-cop who burned body again gets 17 years
Source: Associated Press
Ex-cop who burned body again gets 17 years
By KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press | August 15, 2014 | Updated: August 15, 2014 4:00pm
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For a second time, a former New Orleans police officer was sentenced Friday to more than 17 years in prison for burning the body of a man shot to death by another New Orleans police officer in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina.
Gregory McRae already is imprisoned for burning Henry Glover's body. However, an appeals court had ordered a recalculation of his original 17-year sentence after one of his original convictions was thrown out.
In giving the same 17-year, 3-month sentence, U.S. District Judge Lance Africk said that McRae was guilty of covering up an unlawful killing by fellow Officer David Warren. Africk's assertion comes despite the fact that a jury eventually acquitted Warren in the case.
Africk rejected defense motions for departures from federal sentencing guidelines including arguments regarding McRae's mental state following Katrina. He also rejected defense lawyer Michael Fawer's argument that there was no evidence that McRae actually knew Glover had been shot by a police officer when he set fire to a car containing Glover's body on Sept. 2, 2005.
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