Thompson's federal trial began on October 12, 2011 with jury selection.
That's considered unlikely, but even if there is a federal trial, nothing will reverse what happened.
The officers were later convicted by a federal trial.
It is the first challenge to the municipal ordinances across the country to be heard in a federal trial.
Did he just miss the limelight of a federal trial?
This set the stage for the second federal trial this spring.
July 13, 2007: Prosecution rests case in federal criminal trial.
Copeland, Brown, and five others were held for federal trial.
He added that the prosecution would rely in part on evidence from the 1967 federal trial.
After facing federal trial, the officers received 32 months prison sentence.
