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Former North Charleston Police officer Michael Slager speaks Monday during a hearing in front of Judge Clifton Newman. Newman set bond for Slager in the amount of $500.000. (Brad Nettles/Staff) 1/4/16 
  
 The former North Charleston officer who fatally shot Walter Scott was released from jail Monday night after a judge said he was troubled by a delay in the trial and granted bail. 
  
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 The decision was met with gasps from Scott’s family and with tears from Michael Slager’s wife and parents, who appeared together for the first time in the downtown Charleston courtroom. Slager was released at 7 p.m. after posting $500,000 bail, a jail spokesman said. Under a surety bond, he would have to pay $50,000 of that total. 
  
 Under the judge’s order, he must stay on house detention in South Carolina. He can leave only for attorney and doctor visits, courtroom appearances and church services. 
  
 It’s the first time Slager has seen the outside of a jail, a transport van or a courthouse since his arrest three days after shooting Scott in the back on April 4. A cellphone video of the shooting brought scrutiny to North Charleston of police officers’ use of force against black men. Slager is white; Scott is black. 
  
 At the heart of Circuit Judge Clifton Newman’s decision was an order from the state Supreme Court that cleared the area’s top prosecutor from going to trial on other cases before Emanuel AME Church shooting suspect Dylann Roof is tried this summer. The order is why, Newman said, he had to set Slager’s trial for Oct. 31. 
  
 Meanwhile, Slager’s pretrial confinement could affect a sort of punishment on the former officer even while he is presumed innocent, the judge said. A defense attorney cited Slager’s celiac disease that has worsened with a jail diet containing gluten. 
  
 The prospect of months more behind bars prompted Newman to reconsider his decision denying bail in September, when he labeled Slager a danger to the community and a flight risk. 
  
 Scott’s loved ones were unhappy about that ruling, but they respected it, their attorney, Justin Bamberg, said. 
  
 With a community that’s on “pins and needles” with every development in the case, Bamberg urged calm to again reign after the latest milestone. After the footage of Scott’s death emerged, people protested peacefully, and the city remained quiet, unlike other cities such as Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., where riots ravaged neighborhoods after police shootings there. 
  
 “Just be peaceful as we have been,” Bamberg said, “and know that at the end of the day, the justice system is going to run its course.” 
  
 James Johnson, a South Carolina president for the National Action Network and a longtime participant in civil rights protests, feared that Slager would flee to escape prosecution because the former officer has “nothing to lose,” he said. 
  
 “We the community are very, very disappointed in the justice system,” Johnson said. 
  
 In a separate order, the judge denied a request by Slager’s attorney for public money to pay for expert witnesses. The lawyer, Andy Savage, has represented Slager free of charge but asked for the funds to mount a proper defense. 
  
 Monday’s hearing, though, centered on the bail issue. It contained none of the extensive presentations of evidence and impassioned arguments that marked the first bail proceeding in the fall. 
  
 Savage noted the difficulty of preparing a defense and analyzing video footage of the shooting with his client in jail. Such visits between attorneys and clients happen through a videoconferencing system. 
  
 “It just cannot be done,” he said. “We tried it. It’s impossible.” 
  
 Further delays in the case as a result of Roof’s prosecution in the deaths of nine at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church also threaten Slager’s constitutional right to a speedy trial, the lawyer argued. 
  
 Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson, the lead prosecutor in both cases, handed the judge a list of other defendants who have been waiting longer for their trials. 
  
 She said nothing has changed since the judge last labeled Slager a flight risk. There is also no one who can constantly monitor Slager’s whereabouts after his release “who we can trust,” she said. 
  
 The prosecutor also said it was risky to free a defendant who feels wronged by his arrest. 
  
 “The defendant’s circumstances are very bleak,” Wilson said. “In desperate times, people take very desperate actions. That is our concern. 
  
 “It’s been clear from the start that he claims the role of the victim.” 
  
 Wilson argued that a delay in the case wasn’t a change in circumstances that the law says a judge can weigh in reconsidering a bail decision. Newman disagreed. 
  
 “The role of the court is not to seek to punish,” he said, noting that lengthy pretrial confinement can amount to punishment. “I am troubled by the delay.” 
  
 Slager’s wife and his mother hugged after the judge granted bail. 
  
 Scott’s family members consoled each other. The ruling came despite a plea by Scott’s father, Walter Scott Sr., to keep Slager behind bars until the trial. He wanted Slager to stay in jail “so he could feel the pain I feel,” he said. 
  
 “I don’t think Mr. Slager had any remorse after watching that video,” he said. “Every time I look at it, it makes me cry.” 
  
 Melissa Boughton contributed to this report. Reach Andrew Knapp at 843-937-5414 or twitter.com/offlede. ||||| Officials with the Charleston County Sheriff's Office say the former North Charleston police officer accused of murdering Walter Scott has been released from custody. 
  
 CCSO officials say Slager was released at 7 p.m. on Monday after posting bond. 
  
 Authorities say Slager was released from the Charleston County Courthouse. 
  
 Earlier in the afternoon, Judge Clifton Newman set bond at $500,000, which meant Slager would have to pay $50,000 to get out of jail. 
  
 Newman said he took into consideration the length of time Slager would have had to wait in jail for a fall trial. 
  
 Before the judge set bond, Walter Scott's father addressed the judge and mentioned the cell phone video which captured the shooting. 
  
 "Looking at the film that I saw, every time I look at it, it makes me cry," said Walter Scott's father, Walter Scott, Sr."When I go down to the graveyard, the only thing I see there is a pot sticking in the ground with flowers in it...If you let him out, he's gonna go home and look at his wife and children." 
  
 Newman also set Slager's trial date for Oct. 31. 
  
 While disappointed with the bond, lawyers for Walter Scott's family asked for peace. 
  
 "Just be peaceful, like we have been," said Justin Bamberg."Know at the end of the day, justice will run its course. I believe in the legal system, and the Scott family believes in it." 
  
 The National Action Network will be holding a press conference Tuesday morning outside the jail in response to Slager's release. 
  
 Earlier on Monday, the jail's site indicated bail had been posted as of approximately 5:23 p.m., but at 5:53 p.m., the Charleston County Sheriff's Office denied that via a post on Twitter, stating Slager was still in their custody. A spokesman for the sheriff's office said late Monday a jail employee mistakenly posted that Slager had bonded out of jail. CCSO officials later tweeted that Slager was released at 7 p.m. 
  
 Slager's attorneys had requested a speedy trial, but Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson filed a 10-page response to that motion, saying a date in the fall would be both reasonable and necessary because she is also working on the case against Dylann Roof, the suspect in the June shooting deaths of nine parishioners at Mother Emanuel AME Church. 
  
 Wilson told the court she felt the trial should be held in November at the earliest. 
  
 A judge denied bond for Slager in September, stating the court found the release of the defendant would cause an unreasonable danger to the community. But his attorneys requested last month that bond be reconsidered. In setting bond Monday, 
  
 Slager is charged in the April 4 shooting death of Walter Scott. 
  
 Newman ordered Slager to remain under house arrest if he posted bail and to have no contact with Scott's family. 
  
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Michael Slager, the South Carolina police officer arrested, jailed, and fired for shooting unarmed black motorist Walter Scott, is out of custody for the first time since a few days after the April 4 shooting. A judge granted bail to the former North Charleston officer on Monday, saying he was troubled by delays that meant the trial will not take place until the fall, reports the Post and Courier. At the hearing, Scott's father was among those arguing against releasing Slager. He spoke about a widely seen video of the shooting. "Looking at the film that I saw, every time I look at it, it makes me cry," he said, per WCSC. "When I go down to the graveyard, the only thing I see there is a pot sticking in the ground with flowers in it ... If you let him out, he's gonna go home and look at his wife and children." The judge, who set bail at $500,000, said he had to set Slager's trial date for Oct. 31 because the area's top prosecutor will be occupied before then with the Dylann Roof trial, reports the Post and Courier, which notes the judge took into account a defense attorney's argument that keeping Slager behind bars so long before trial would be punishing an innocent man—especially since Slager is gluten-intolerant and reacting badly to the jail diet. Slager, who will be under house arrest until the trial and is barred from contacting any members of the Scott family, was released Monday night after posting bond, NBC News reports. (In October, North Charleston's city council voted unanimously on a settlement with the Scott family.)