United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned two police officers in Washington who were convicted in the 2020 murder of a 20-year-old Black man, Karon Hylton-Brown.
Recall that in September 2024, Terence Sutton Jr. was sentenced to 66 months in prison, while Andrew Zabavsky was sentenced to 48 months in prison over an unauthorized police pursuit that ended in a collision on October 23rd, 2020, causing the death of Karon Hylton-Brown in Northwest Washington, D.C.
The Metropolitan Police Department said Sutton, in his early 40s, and Zabavsky, in his mid-50s, were on indefinite suspension without pay, pending an administrative process after Sutton was found guilty by a unanimous federal jury in late 2022 in a nine-week trial of second-degree murder, conspiracy to obstruct, and obstruction of justice.
Sutton’s attorney, Kellen Dwyer, said in a statement that while he and his client were confident that the D.C. Circuit would have reversed this conviction, they are thrilled that President Trump ended this prosecution once and for all, but the report says Hylton-Brown’s mother, Karen Hylton, expressed shock and cried when she learned of the potential pardons.
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