Jury deadlocks on whether rifle-butting Nebraska trooper violated motorist's rights
11 November 2021
11 November 2021
A federal jury could not agree on whether a former Nebraska state trooper violated a motorist’s civil rights when he bashed him in the head with the butt of an AR-15 rifle. Jurors deadlocked after deliberating for 2½ days over whether Lindsey Bixby was guilty of a felony civil-rights violation that could have sent him to prison for up to 10 years. The jury forewoman told a judge that 10 jurors had voted to find Bixby not guilty; two had voted to find him guilty. With that, she pivoted toward the back of the courtroom and nodded at a relative ...