Glover was shot outside a strip mall being guarded by police four days after levee failures during Hurricane Katrina led to catastrophic flooding, covering 80 percent of the city in water, knocking out all utilities and leaving tens of thousands stranded — some in their homes, some on rooftops amid the flooding, and many in the Superdome and the New Orleans convention center. Initially convicted on a federal manslaughter charge, Warren won a new trial when an appeals court said he should have been tried separately from four other former officers charged in the cover-up of Glover's death. Two other officers were acquitted. "Because there is no newly discovered evidence, it is fundamentally unfair, if not a violation of the principal of double jeopardy, to commence a third trial of Mr.