COLUMBUS, OhioWCMH) — A former Columbus police officer is now convicted of murder, felonious assault and reckless homicide.

Adam Coy fatally shot Andre Hill in December 2020. The guilty verdict on all three charges was returned Monday after five days of testimony and approximately 12 hours of deliberations.

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This is the first trial for a deadly shooting involving law enforcement in Franklin County that did not result in a mistrial or a not guilty verdict.

Rob Barnhart, a law professor at Capital University, said Coy’s case proves it’s possible to find a 12-person jury in Franklin County willing to convict a police officer. He said he was surprised to see a guilty verdict on all three counts.

“So in cases where reckless homicide is on the table, you might think that jurors who might be hesitant to convict a law enforcement officer might say, ‘Well, we don’t know if we mean that ‘he was trying to kill this individual.’ person or wanted to kill that person, but we are willing to say he should have done better,” Barnhart said.

There are currently three other trials pending in Franklin County for deadly shootings involving law enforcement:

Barhart said that while Coy’s case doesn’t set a precedent for future cases, it could change the lawyer’s tactics.

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“I guess if you’re the state and you have access, you know, it’s not always the same prosecutors, but you have access to those prosecutors and see if the jurors talk to them and see what worked,” Barnhart said. “I mean, in theory, now you have a playbook that works and you can run it again. But you’re also dealing with the same defense team that knows you might be running the same playbook and can adapt accordingly.

The same defense team that represented Coy – Mark Collins and Kaitlyn Stephens – represents law enforcement officers in all three pending cases. However, prosecutors are different.

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