A manslaughter charge has been dropped against former Miami-Dade Police Deputy, Jose Mateo, one of the several officers indicted in 2019 shootout that led to the death of an UPS delivery driver, after a judge sided with his motion to dismiss the case based on the Florida’s “stand your ground law”.
The Broward County Judge Ernest Kollra handed out an order Thursday saying “after applying the statutory in case law to the facts of this case and determining the credibility of the witnesses who testified, the court finds the fact in testimony to support the application of immunity under Florida’s “stand your ground law.”
Adding, “the court finds that the state has not established, by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant did not have reasonable belief to use deadly force and it was necessary to prevent imminent death of his own.”…