HOUSTON -- An ex-Houston police officer accused in the videotaped beating of a teen burglary suspect is set to face a jury. Opening statements in the trial of fired Houston police officer Andrew Blomberg are set for Thursday. He's charged with misdemeanor official oppression and faces up to a year in jail if convicted.
A jury of six plus an alternate was chosen over five days last week as a judge allowed jurors to be individually questioned due to publicity in the case.
Security video from March 2010 appears to show several officers kicking and hitting Chad Holley near a business. Holley, then 15, was later convicted in juvenile court of burglary and put on probation.
Blomberg and three other officers were fired and indicted. He's the first to be tried.
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