After more than 6 hours over 2 days, jurors announced a guilty verdict was reached just after 2 p.m. this afternoon for the former San Francisco Bay Area Transit officer, Johannes Mehserle, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of 22-year old Oscar Grant on an Oakland BART Platform on New Years Day. Involuntary manslaughter carries a sentence of 2 to 4 years in jail. Mehserle is expected to be sentenced on August 6th.
