A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the murder retrial of a former sheriff’s deputy in Ohio charged in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr.
More than two years after a tumultuous first proceeding ended in mistrial, 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’s house in December 2020.
