A judge on Wednesday set a Dec. 4 retrial date for the Detroit police officer accused in the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, the Detroit Free Press reports.
The date for Officer Joseph Weekley's trial was set during a hearing Wednesday before Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway.
Weekley, whose gun went off killing Aiyana during a raid targeting a murder suspect in May 2010, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, a felony, and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, a misdemeanor.
A mistrial was declared in June when the jury told a judge they were hung after nearly three days of deliberations.
Read more at the Detroit Free Press.
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