By SUE SUCHYTA
Times-Herald Newspapers
HEIGHTS — Ted Wafer of Dearborn Heights, who was sentenced to prison after he shot and killed Renisha McBride in 2013, will be resentenced, following a Feb. 16 ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court, multiple media sources reported.
McBride had knocked on Wafer’s door, while inebriated, seeking help after she was involved in a single vehicle crash. Wafer claimed he thought he was being robbed, and feared for his life when he shot her through his screen door.
The court ruled that Wafer’s constitutional rights were violated when a jury was allowed to convict him of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for a single killing, for which there were no legal precedents in the Michigan court system, media sources reported.
Wafer has served eight years of a minimum 17-year sentence.