No decision made in Ohio police-shooting case

CLEVELAND (AP) — A judge didn’t indicate when he will issue a decision on the question of whether prosecutors used tainted grand jury testimony to indict six Cleveland officers in a deadly police shooting in 2012.

Judge John O’Donnell of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court concluded the 1 1/2-day hearing today without rendering a decision.

Attorneys for the six officers charged argued that prosecutors must prove they did not use protected statements from an internal police investigation in the aftermath of a shooting where 13 officers fired 137 rounds into a car and killed two unarmed suspects.

A county prosecutor argued that his office took care to shield any protected statements taken by Cleveland police of the indicted officers from statements gathered by state investigators for a criminal probe.