Robert Faulcon, a former New Orleans police officer currently in federal prison for his part in the deadly post-Katrina shooting of unarmed civilians in 2005 is asking for an earlier release.
Faulcon was one of four NOPD officers convicted of the unjustified shootings at the Danziger Bridge and a subsequent cover-up of the incident.
Two people died and four were hurt in the shootings, six days after levee failures flooded most of New Orleans.
The scandal was part of the events that eventually led to major court-mandated reforms of the New Orleans Police Department.
Faulcon's initial conviction was later overturned. But he pled guilty in a deal with prosecutors in 2016. He was sentenced to 12 years - with credit for time served since he was jailed in 2010.
He pled guilty to one civil rights deprivation charge pertaining to the shooting death of a victim and two charges related to obstructing the investigation.
Faulkon asked a federal court Friday to move up his Dec. 25, 2020 release date by roughly two-and-a-half months, to Oct. 2, 2020, with home confinement beginning in April.
He's basing his request on prison reform legislation passed by Congress last year.
It allows federal inmates to earn 54 days a year of good behavior credit rather than 47.