The former Columbus police officer, Adam Coy, will return to Court on Monday

The condemned lawyers of former Columbus police officer, Adam Coy, request communication records between prosecutors and the use of experts in force, arguing retained prosecutors evidence in the trial.
Prosecutors argue that the records are protected by the lawyer-client privilege and should not be released.
Coy was convicted of murder in death in December 2020 by Andre Hill, an unarmed black man.

A former Columbus police officer Condemned for murder in a shooting in December 2020 He will be in a Franklin County room on Monday, but will not be sentenced.

On November 4, a jury from Franklin’s Count Andre Hill, 47,An unarmed black man.

Coy is the First application officer in Franklin County to be convicted In a shooting that happened while the officer was on duty. He has been arrested in Franklin County prison since his conviction, but It has not yet been sentenced. The only prayer Coy can receive under Ohio’s law is life imprisonment without the possibility of probation for 15 years.

However, after the jury’s verdict, the defense lawyers of Coy, Mark Collins and Kaitlyn Stephens, presented judicial documents accusing prosecutors in the case of not revealing evidence. Coy’s lawyers said the former attached lawyer Anthony Pierson had consulted with an expert in use of the force that had said that Coy de Hill’s shooting was justified under the circumstances. Pierson decided not to use the expert, but he did not tell the defense team that he had spoken with the expert, defense lawyers say.

Pierson, who He left Franklin’s County Prosecutor’s Office in DecemberHe denied any irregularity in an answer.

On Monday, the judge of the Common Court of Franklin County, Stephen Mcintosh, will hear arguments about whether citations should be allowed for the records presented by Coy’s lawyers. Prosecutors have argued that the records, which are related to communications between Pierson, other prosecutors and the expert, Jamie Borden, are work products and are prohibited by the privilege of lawyers-client and should not be given to Coy’s lawyers .

Collins and Stephens have argued that if they had known about the expert, they would have called it as a defense witness to challenge the case of the Prosecutor’s Office.

The shooting occurred shortly before 2 in the morning of December 22, 2020. Then, Officer Coy had responded to Oberlin Drive, on the northwest side of the city, after a neighbor called the non -emergency line of the Columbus police to inform a silver SUV that had been in operation. From time to time for about three hours.

When Coy arrived, he spoke with the SUV driver, which is now known to be Hill. The testimony of Coy’s trial showed that Hill had shown Coy a cell phone and told Coy that he was waiting for someone. Coy testified that he saw Hill walk to the door of a house that fates the one that was parked in front of the door without anyone’s response.

Hill, according to Coy’s testimony, then walked back to SUV, rummaged inside and then touched the main door again. As in the first instance, there was no response from anyone inside the house or changes, such as the lights on.

Another Columbus officer arrived on the scene and Coy testified that he told him that the situation seemed off, at which time they started walking along the entrance road to the house, which had an open garage door. The evidence of proof, including the video of the Coy’s body camera, showed that Hill had entered the open garage, which had no light lights, and Coy giving verbal orders so that Hill came out and shows.

Hill began to leave the garage with a cell phone on in his left hand. Coy shouted “Pistol, gun, has a gun” before drawing his firearm and his shooting hill four times. Coy testified that he saw silver metal in Hill’s right hand, which was then determined as Hill’s key ring and not a weapon.

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