Juror in Auburn police officer’s guilty murder trial describes ‘heartbreaking’ experience

Dan Benjamin said he originally felt officer Jeffrey Nelson was not guilty of second-degree murder, but changed his mind after getting over his own “biases.”

AUBURN, Wash. — Hours after a King County judge sentenced Auburn police officer Jeffrey Nelson for the murder of Jesse Sarey, one of the jurors called the years-long saga “heartbreaking” and “difficult to watch.”

Dan Benjamin still believes the jury got the verdict right. 

“I don’t believe there is any other officer on the planet who would have made the decisions that were made that day in May 2019,” Benjamin told KING 5. “It’s difficult to know [what’s in]

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