Joyce, the circuit attorney at the time of the shooting, claimed that the Internal Affairs Division presented her with new evidence, enabling her to charge Stockley with murder years after her own office and federal prosecutors had declined to charge him.

Joyce, who decided not to run for re-election in 2016, still has never identified the new evidence. Her successor Kim Gardner said she could not say what it was.

Since the verdict Sept. 15, Joyce has made just one public comment in a text message to a Post-Dispatch reporter on that day: “I’m confident that the citizens understand why this case was prosecuted.”

In a May 2016 article in the Riverfront Times, Joyce said Internal Affairs had contacted her office two months earlier with new evidence developed by city investigators and the FBI.

But in his deposition, Deeken testified that he was unaware of any new evidence. Deeken said his colonel called him into his office in April 2016 and said, “Hey, the Circuit Attorney’s Office is picking up this case. And they need you to compile evidence, compile whatever you got.”

“I’m like, ‘I already gave them everything I had back in 2012 …,’” Deeken said in the deposition.