Ten minutes before the jury decided the verdict that could send University student Augustin Ganley to jail for more than two years, the six jury members hunched over a notebook computer in the darkened courtroom and watched three cell phone videos one last time, while the videos - with their soundtracks of sirens, curses and chants - blared through the room.
In the course of the trial, the prosecution introduced three witnesses, all Minneapolis police officers, while the defense countered with nine eyewitnesses, some of whom were Ganley's friends.
In the end, the amount of the defense's evidence, with its grainy cell phone videos, outweighed the sworn testimony of a Minneapolis policeman.
Ganley was acquitted Monday of charges of assaulting a police officer, obstruction and fleeing, all of which carried a penalty of up to two years and three months in jail. The charges stemmed from an Aug. 31 Critical Mass bike protest, where 19 people were arrested.
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