Attorney: Jurors Too Often Give Suspect-Shooting Cops Benefit of the Doubt

A jury recently found that the actions of a deputy who shot and paralyzed Cody Cox during a bizarre incident on Interstate 70 near Georgetown four years ago were legally justified. But while Cox’s lawyer offers praise for jurors, who he says “paid close attention and took their job seriously,” he also expresses frustration over their verdict and a system that he sees as being weighted in favor of trigger-pulling law enforcers.