Calls for Balch Springs officer to be arrested unlikely to be met, experts say
FOX4News.com Staff – May 4, 2017
A rising chorus of voices is calling for fired Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver to be arrested and charged with murder.
But legal experts said it would be extremely rare for an officer to be arrested before a grand jury sees any evidence.
Jordan Edwards, 15, was a passenger in a car when he was shot in the head with a rifle and killed by Oliver last Saturday night. The car Edwards was in was driving away from the officers when he was shot, not toward the officers as police initially claimed.
Former Assistant D.A. Toby Shook has both vigorously prosecuted and defended police in officer shootings.
“Usually when a police officer is involved in a deadly shooting they refer it to the grand jury. They don’t make an arrest,” Shook said. “But there are some occasions where the D.A.’s office or the sheriff could say we’re going to make an arrest just like any other case,” Shook said.
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