![]() ![]() The trial is expected to take seven to 10 days. ![]() ![]() Opening arguments and the first witnesses opened the trial Tuesday. Ruch has been free on $500,000 bail since 2020. Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters. Get Philly local news, weather forecasts, sports and entertainment stories to your inbox. According to details released following the grand jury investigation, Plowden, 25, was dazed, sitting on the ground and raising his left hand when Ruch fired his service weapon at Plowden's head. Ruch Jr., now 34, was fired months after the Dec. The first-degree charge was later thrown out. In 2020, a Philly grand jury recommended four criminal charges, including first-degree murder, for Ruch Jr., who is the officer alleged to have shot and killed Dennis Plowden, an unarmed Black man. His bail was revoked and he will be sentenced Nov. Ruch was also convicted of possession of an instrument of crime. was found not guilty of another charge, third-degree murder, by the jury in a trial that lasted eight days in Common Pleas Court in Center City. A former Philadelphia police officer was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter Tuesday in what has been described as the first murder trial in Philadelphia's history for a civilian's death at the hands of a police officer.Įric Ruch Jr. ![]()
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