For only the second time in 17 years, a Dallas County grand jury has
indicted a police officer for wrongly killing a suspect in the line of
duty. Patrick Tuter is being held on an unusually high $100,000 bail
after his indictment for manslaughter in the death of 25-year-old
Michael Vincent Allen on Aug. 31 of last year.
Prosecutors said
they did not consider the fired Garland police officer a threat to flee,
and were prepared to let bail go as low as $10,000. But Judge Lena
Levario said that in her view, Tuter (pictured) posed a threat to public
safety and needed to be locked up. Typical bail in manslaughter cases
is about $25,000, the Dallas Morning News reported.
If he makes bail, Tuter is not allowed to hold any job that requires him to use a weapon.
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