Jhacorey Wyatt may be sentenced for the wrong crime

Jhacorey Wyatt in 2020 with his daughter, Lydia. — Photo courtesy Public Defender’s Office by Griffin Jones 28-year-old Jhacorey Wyatt has spent an entire prison term awaiting his sentence for a 2021 shooting in the Tenderloin. Tomorrow, Dec. 10, a judge will decide whether Wyatt receives time served or face over a decade more behind bars. The ruling has a chance to break from San Francisco’s trend of over-incarcerating Black people — in this case, for a crime that four jurors who originally handed out guilty verdicts are now refuting. In sworn statements, several jurors say that involuntary manslaughter, which carries a lesser sentence than voluntary manslaughter, was never considered. Based on surveillance video and witness testimony, they say, voluntary manslaughter is not the crime that should commit Wyatt to prison. “In hundreds of cases, I’ve never seen this,” said San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju of the jurors’ statements. “This is a highly unique situation, which is why it calls for the judge and, frankly, the prosecutor, to vacate this conviction.” 2021: A brisk August night in the Tenderloin. Wyatt, then 25, set out from Oakland to San Francisco to find his younger brother, who was on the streets...