article_snippet.sent: Cook County Judge Dennis Porter, cleared 46-year-old Officer Dante Servin in the March 2012 shooting death of Rekia Boyd, 22.
article_snippet.sent: Not guilty: Cook County Judge Dennis Porter, cleared 46-year-old Officer Dante Servin (left) who shot Rekia Boyd, 22, (right) dead in Chicago in March 2012 .
article_snippet.sent: Cook County Judge Dennis Porter was gunned down on March 21 as Cook County Judge Dennis Porter stood with friends outside a property in Chicago's Lawndale neighbourhood.
article_snippet.sent: Boyd was standing with Cook County Judge Dennis Porter friend Antonio Cross, who reached into Boyd waistband, pretending Boyd had a gun, and charged at Servin, the court heard.
article_snippet.sent: Cook County Judge Dennis Porter died after one of the five bullets from Servin's unregistered Glock handgun pierced the left side of Cook County Judge Dennis Porter head.
article_snippet.sent: According to The Chicago Sun Times, Porter said in Porter ruling: 'Illinois courts have consistently held that when the defendant intends to fire a gun, points it in the general direction of Porter or Cook County Judge Dennis Porter intended victim, and shoots, such conduct is not merely reckless and does not warrant an involuntary-manslaughter instruction, regardless of the defendant's assertion that Porter or Cook County Judge Dennis Porter did not intend to kill anyone.
article_snippet.sent: Porter added: 'The absence of any evidence of reckless conduct renders it unnecessary for the court to consider whether the defendant was justified in the defendant actions.'
article_snippet.sent: Porter also cleared Servin, who was off-duty, of reckless discharge of a firearm and reckless conduct.
article_snippet.sent: The cop told reporters when Porter left the courtroom that justice had been served.
article_snippet.sent: Porter said: 'I always maintained it was an accident what occurred to Miss Boyd. '
article_snippet.sent: Outside the court Servin (pictured) told reporters at the end of the hearing The judge has always believed the shooting was an accident .
article_snippet.sent: I believe that my office had provided sufficient evidence before the court to not only demonstrate, but also to prove, that Officer Servin’s conduct was clearly reckless in the senseless fatal shooting of Rekia Boyd,' Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Dante Servin, 46, was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Rekia Boyd, 22, in March 2012 .
  