Attorneys for Peter Liang, a former New York City police officer convicted of manslaughter for firing a single bullet that ricocheted off a wall and into an innocent man, have asked that his conviction be set aside.
“Never before has a defendant been convicted of reckless manslaughter on less proof of blameworthy conduct than that adduced against Peter Liang,” Zuckerman Spaeder partner Paul Shechtman and University of California-Davis School of Law Professor Gabriel Chin argued in the memorandum in People v. Liang, 9988/2014.
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