A mistrial was declared Saturday in the murder trial of former University of Cincinnati police Officer Ray Tensing in connection with the fatal July 2015 shooting of motorist Sam DuBose during a traffic stop.

The jury of six men and six women deliberated for more than 25 hours before Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Megan E. Shanahan declared a mistrial. The sequestered jury started deliberations Thursday morning.

Tensing testified this week that he was being dragged by the left arm when he reached up and shot DuBose.


Prosecutors told the jury that Tensing wasn't being pulled by the car and didn't need to fire the single shot at Dubose's head.

After the mistrial, Prosecuting Attorney Joe Deters said he will make a decision on whether to retry the case by November 28.

"We're going to look at what we did in this trial and make an assessment ... as to whether or not we have a probability of success at trial," he told reporters outside the courtroom.

He added, "I still think it's murder and I think that we proved it."

Much of the shooting was recorded on the body camera of the one-time officer.

"If we did not have that body cam there would not have been charges filed," Deter told reporters. "Clearly it was the heart of the case."

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I read the title as mistral. That's a strong, cold, wind that blows through southern France in winter.

The jury also had a choice of manslaughter, which should have been the only charge brought and put in front of a box of nitwits. Introducing "murder" places the bar way too high, especially against a cop, and I can't imagine presenting a jury with a bevvy of charges only varying on requisite level of intent (as opposed to say, a gun charge + drug charge + murder charge) making things simple.

The jury apparently was "leaning" towards a guilty verdict on the murder charge but "leaning" towards convicting him of manslaughter. So says the prosecutor.

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