A second former Memphis police officer changed his plea to guilty on Friday in connection to alleged civil rights violations that ended in the beating death of Tyre Nichols.
A change of plea for former officer Emmitt Martin was entered in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Mark Norris, records showed.
Back in November, another former Memphis officer, Desmond Mills Jr., changed his plea to guilty to federal charges of excessive force and obstruction of justice. The defendant agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and face up to 15 years behind bars.
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These fucks are on tape torturing and beating an innocent man to death 80 ft from his and his mothers home, while he begged for his mother to help him.
After they brutally beat him, which included hitting him in the head with batons and this asshole taking a kick to his face as he was held up against his will, they left him to gurgle and die, slumped up against a car while providing no aid at all. No one put him on a stretcher for 26 minutes after they beat him, not even the paramedic that showed up and instead chatted with the cops. He later died from the head trauma they caused.
This motherfucker pleaded guilty because he was guilty. Ideally, he will be locked in a dark cage forever to relive what he did to that innocent man.
He may also have plead guilty because he doesn’t want other dirt that he’s done to be unearthed in a full investigation
LegalEagle has said many times, no matter how guilty you are, you most likely should never plead guilty, so I’m gonna guess that no, he didn’t plead guilty because he was guilty. He did it for other reasons. And guess what? The reason is listed in the article. For a reduced sentence.