NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An Aug. 22 federal court trial date has been set for a former New Orleans police officer accused of helping cover up information on deadly police shootings following Hurricane Katrina.
The new trial date was set Tuesday for Gerard Dugue (DOO’-gay). He faces charges related to the writing of a false report about the shootings that killed two unarmed people at the Danziger bridge in 2005.
Dugue’s first trial in 2012 ended in a mistrial when the judge ruled a prosecutor may have unfairly influenced the jury by mentioning the name of a man beaten to death by a New Orleans police officer in an unrelated case.
Earlier this year, four ex-officers pleaded guilty in the shootings; another pleaded guilty in the cover-up. Dugue has denied participating in the cover-up.
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