January 30, 2015 16:26 GMT
By ED WHITE Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) -- A judge has dismissed the last charge against a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a raid and says she's willing to be the "scapegoat" if critics don't like the result.
Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway granted the prosecutor's request Friday to drop a misdemeanor against Joseph Weekley.
Two trials ended without verdicts. During the second trial, Hathaway dismissed the most serious charge, involuntary manslaughter, saying there wasn't sufficient evidence.
Weekley accidentally shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she slept on a couch in a Detroit home in 2010. He says he accidentally pulled the trigger after Aiyana's grandmother grabbed his gun. She denies that.
He and other officers were raiding the home to search for a murder suspect. The raid was recorded by a reality TV crew.
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