NEW ORLEANS – A former New Orleans police officer accused in the cover-up of shootings that killed two people after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is set to change his plea.
The hearing Friday for Gerard Dugue (DOOH'-gay) comes a day after federal prosecutors reduced felony charges against him to a single misdemeanor.
He's accused in the cover-up of police shootings that killed two people at New Orleans' Danziger bridge. His trial had been scheduled to start Monday.
Five other former police officers pleaded guilty earlier this year: four in connection with the shootings; one for a role in the cover-up.
A guilty plea would end a criminal case that roiled the New Orleans Police Department after Katrina.
The city and the U.S. Justice Department agreed to a reform plan in 2012.
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