NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on whether the man who killed a former NFL player in a 2016 road rage incident can stand trial again. for murder after his conviction on a lesser charge was overturned.

Authorities in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson Parish originally charged Ronald Gasser with second-degree murder in the murder of Joe McKnight. A high school football hero at John Curtis Christian School in Louisiana, McKnight played three seasons for the New York Jets and one with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Instead of murder, the jury Gasser found guilty of manslaughter. But this verdict was later overturned because it came from a non-unanimous jury.

The Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office said the non-unanimous manslaughter ruling should not be taken as an acquittal on the murder charge. Prosecutors wanted another chance to try Gasser for murder.

A state district judge in Gretna ruled, and a state appeals committee agreed in a 2-1 decision, that trying Gasser again for murder would violate his constitutional protection against double jeopardy.

The state’s highest court has not set a date for oral arguments on the matter.

Witnesses at the 2018 trial said McKnight weaved through traffic at high speed before shooting. But prosecutors argued that Gasser escalated the conflict, following McKnight in an exit he wouldn’t normally have taken.

Gasser’s defense team insisted he shot McKnight in self-defense.