Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty speaks at a news conference on Monday, June 3, 2024, in Minneapolis, on her decision to dismiss the politically heated case of a Minnesota state trooper who shot a motorist to death. She said she dropped the charges because she no longer thought she could win a conviction against Trooper Ryan Londregan, who killed Ricky Cobb II as he tried to pull away from a traffic stop July 31. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)
FILE - Trooper Ryan Londregan walks hand-in-hand with his wife to his first court appearance to answer to murder and manslaughter charges in the killing of Ricky Cobb II during a traffic stop last summer, Jan. 29, 2024, at the Hennepin Public Safety Facility in Minneapolis. Prosecutors plan to dismiss murder and manslaughter charges against Londregan, who fatally shot Cobb as he tried to pull away from a traffic stop, saying the unexpected decision comes in response to recent statements from the trooper's attorney and new analysis of video from the scene. (Renée Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP, File)
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty speaks at a news conference Monday, June 3, 2024, in Minneapolis, on her decision to dismiss the politically heated case of a Minnesota state trooper who shot a motorist to death. She said she dropped the charges because she no longer thought she could win a conviction against Trooper Ryan Londregan, who killed Ricky Cobb II as he tried to pull away from a traffic stop July 31. She said a newly raised defense claim that Londregan believed that Cobb was reaching for Londregan's gun and other new evidence made the case impossible to prove. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)