MEADE CHARGE DROPPED

IN COLUMBUS, PROSECUTORS DROPPED ONE OF THE CHARGES AGAINST FORMER FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTY JASON MEADE WHO IS ACCUSED IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF CASEY GOODSON JUNIOR. IN FEBRUARY A JUDGE DECLARED A MISTRIAL AFTER THE JURY COULD NOT REACH A UNANIMOUS VERDICT. 
ON DECEMBER 4, 2020, JASON MEADE WAS WORKING AS PART OF THE U.S. MARSHALLS TASK FORCE ON A WARRANT WHEN MEADE CLAIMS HE SAW CASEY GOODSON JUNIOR WAVE A GUN WHILE DRIVING. MEADE FOLLOWED GOODSON BACK TO GOODSON'S GRANDMOTHER'S HOME. MEADE CLAIMS HE TOLD GOODSON TO DROP A GUN, WHEN GOODSON DID NOT MEADE SHOT AND KILLED THE 23-YEAR-OLD. SPECIAL PROSECUTORS ASSIGNED TO THE CASE DECIDED THEY WILL RE-TRY MEADE. MEADE HAD BEEN TRIED ON ONE COUNT OF RECKLESS HOMICIDE AND TWO COUNTS OF MURDER, ONE COUNT FOR PURPOSELY CAUSING GOODSON'S DEATH. SPECIAL PROSECUTORS ARE NOW DROPPING THE PURPOSEFUL MURDER CHARGES FOR THE NEW TRIAL.