Murder/Homicide/Criminal Defense & Civil Rights
Attorney in Kansas City, Missouri

Picerno said the officers did not know the handgun was a replica when they encountered Aubrey. He said regardless of whether officers believed the gun was real, Aubrey never pointed it at officers or anyone else after they arrived. Aubrey did not pose the threat necessary to justify deadly force, Picerno said. Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article316755045.html#storylink=cpy

A Jackson County grand jury has indicted a Kansas City man this week in connection with a fatal 2024 hit-and-run crash in Kansas City, court records show.

“Any case that he’s involved in, dating back a number of years now, is going to be looked at with a fine-toothed comb and gone over,” Picerno said. “And certainly, if he’s a central key witness and his credibility was, let’s say, for instance, in most cases, if it’s a one witness case, potentially, and his credibility was the central factor in that kind of a case, then any convictions that came from those convictions are going to be looked at very hard.