Officer Warren was charged with a federal civil rights violation, specifically one count of committing manslaughter with a firearm. Officer Gregory McRae was charged with obstructing justice and other charges in relation to burning Glover's body in a 2001 Chevrolet Malibu that belonged to one of Glover's friends. Police Lieutenant Dwayne Scheuermann was charged with assaulting civilians who came to Glover's aid, and obstructing the federal investigation into the burning of Glover's body. Police Lieutenant Travis McCabe was charged with obstructing justice and lying to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was also charged with lying to a federal grand jury. Police Lieutenant Robert Italiano was charged with obstructing justice and lying to the FBI. In total, the 11-count indictment accused the five officers for their roles in the fatal shooting of Glover, the assaulting of Glover's brother and one of his neighbors, and attempting to conceal their actions, through activities such as the attempted cremation of Glover's corpse. Glover's death was highlighted as an example of
police misconduct in the
direct aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina. Prosecutors alleged However, on December 17, 2012, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Warren's conviction and one of the convictions related to McRae, ordering new trials on those charges. The three-judge panel found, among other concerns, that the trials of the two men should have been conducted separately. Warren was acquitted in 2013. In 2014, McRae was resentenced to 17 years and three months in prison. "You did not merely burn a corpse, you, a law enforcement officer, burned a corpse to obstruct justice," Judge Africk said. He said the acquittal of Warren was irrelevant to McRae's own crimes. In 2015, McRae was granted a resentencing hearing after his obstruction of justice conviction was overturned entirely. In 2016, Africk reduced McRae's sentence to 11 years and nine months, which was within the federal guidelines. However, he rejected calls for a greater reduction on the grounds that McRae was mentally disturbed at the time of the crime, stating that a long prison sentence was still warranted due to the severity of the crime. "The facts behind your conviction deal with much more than the burning of an automobile," he said. "By hiding behind a
blue wall of silence, you were hiding the truth." McRae was released from prison on April 2, 2021. The Glover case was incorporated into the plot of the television series
Treme. The defendants cited local media coverage along with the portrayal in
Treme when they sought a
change of venue for the re-trial. ==See also==