Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager will be on house arrest if he is released from custody, the Post and Courier reported.
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Michael Slager, who’s charged with murder in the shooting death of Walter Scott, was released from jail on Monday after posting bail.
The release of Michael Slager on bond Monday was a disappointment to the family of the victim, Walter Scott, said Justin Bamberg, the attorney for the family.
He will be held under house arrest and can not have any contact with Scott’s family.
Newman said he took into consideration the length of time Slager would have had to wait in jail for a fall trial. As a result of that order, Newman said he was forced to set a trial date for Slager of October 31, 2016, and in his view, the prolong pretrial detention of the officers constituted a form of punishment.
Officials have released the dash cam video of officer Michael Slager stopping Walter Scott in a traffic stop, minutes before the office shot and killed Scott.
The slain Scott’s uncle, William Scott, echoed the sentiment that Slager would be a threat to the community.
Walter Scott’s death was caught on cell phone video.
In a filing last week, Wilson referenced a number of cases in which inmates were help considerably longer than Slager has been without a trial date, including a few people who waited several years. “When I go down to the graveyard, the only thing I see there is a pot sticking in the ground with flowers in it…If you let him out, he’s gonna go home and look at his wife and children”.
A grand jury indicted Slager, 34, on a charge of murder after the video surfaced of him shooting Scott, 50, eight times after Scott had turned his back and fled after a daytime traffic stop on April 4.
Scott’s family also opposed bail, but after the hearing asked the community to remain calm.
Newman set the bond amount after spending several minutes discussing the specifics of determining a bond amount and whether an inmate was worthy of getting bond.
If convicted, Scott would face 30 years to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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“It’s everybody’s fault but his”, she said. “It’s not doing anything that is going to have an effect on the criminal trial process”.
