The judge who presided over the Huguenot High School graduation shooting trial issued a gag order on Tuesday forbidding prosecution and defense attorneys from speaking to the media as they prepare their arguments on a recently filed motion to withdraw Amari Pollard’s guilty plea.
Pollard in February pleaded guilty to first-degree murder charges in the June 6 shooting of Shawn Jackson outside the Altria Theater after Judge W. Reilly Marchant ruled that Pollard’s actions did not meet the legal threshold for self-defense.
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