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The Minnesota Supreme Court has reversed the third-degree murder conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an Australian woman in 2017, saying the charge doesn't fit the circumstances in the case.

In 2019, Mohamed Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Justine Damond (nee Ruszczyk), a dual US-Australian citizen who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home. Noor was sentenced to 12 and a half years on the murder count but was not sentenced for manslaughter.

This week's ruling means his murder conviction has been overturned and the case will now go back to the district court, where he will be sentenced on the manslaughter count.
Noor has already served more than 28 months of his murder sentence. If sentenced to the presumptive four years for manslaughter, he could be eligible for supervised release around the end of this year.