The state’s sentencing guidelines list the felony count as having a presumptive punishment of a little more than seven years in prison, though the maximum penalty is 15 years. Potter on only the most serious count, first-degree manslaughter, in accordance with Minnesota law. She has been imprisoned since the guilty verdict on Dec. Potter, a 49-year-old white woman who served on the police force in Brooklyn Center, Minn., resigned two days after the shooting in April, during a time of chaotic protests over the killing of Mr. Wright’s chest after warning that she was going to stun him and yelling: “Taser! Taser! Taser!” They found that she had acted recklessly when she fired a bullet into Mr. Jurors convicted the former officer, Kimberly Potter, on two counts of manslaughter in December. The former police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday, far less than the standard of about seven years for manslaughter, after a judge said leniency was warranted because the officer had meant to fire her Taser and not her gun.
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