Murder trial ordered for ex-transit officer

cnn.com
Jun. 4, 2009
A California judge ruled Thursday that enough evidence exists to hold over former transit police officer Johannes Mehserle on a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man at an Oakland, California, transit station on New Year's Day.
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