Actor Michael Jace, a police officer from TV show “The Shield,” was convicted on May 31 of second-degree murder in the deadly shooting of his wife.
The jury, made up of six men and six women, decided on the verdict, which was announced in court after a week-long trial.
Defense lawyers acknowledged that Jace killed his wife, April, but argued he should be convicted of voluntary manslaughter because it wasn’t a deliberate act.
However, a prosecutor told jurors that Jace was mad because his wife wanted a divorce. Evidence presented at the trial showed that the actor shot his wife three times in their home on May 2014—once in the back and once in each leg.
