Legal
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In the wake of a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma last month, a Utah lawmaker says he believes a firing squad is a more humane form of execution
Gov. Jay Inslee has blocked the release of a man imprisoned for almost killing a Richland police officer 32 years ago
Dias Kadyrbayev texted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shortly after the FBI publicly released photos of Tsarnaev and his brother as suspects in the deadly 2013 attack
“Florida has the 6th worst drivers and the number one most careless drivers in the nation,” said Rep. Irv Slosberg
In the face of a possible lawsuit, Santa Fe County is being circumspect about what it can say about an internal investigation into the apparent heroin overdose death of a teenager
A federal appeals court reinstated a damage suit against San Francisco police Monday by a driver who was held at gunpoint, on her knees, because a police camera misidentified her car as a stolen vehicle
The department announced last month that it was disbanding a unit that tracked the everyday lives of Muslims
The teenager is the only surviving suspect from the Jan. 30 police pursuit and shootout
Man alleges near total loss of vision in his right eye after he was shot twice by deputy
Mahmood said police told the judge during a brief hearing they needed more time to file formal charges
An Indiana man whose age, white hair and folksy style helped conceal his role as a drug courier was sentenced Wednesday — his 90th birthday — to three years in federal prison
Trooper who had sex with victim hours after helping to arrest her husband should not have been fired for the offense, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled
A man arrested in August for videotaping the police SWAT team has received an $8,000 settlement from the city’s insurance company
State law prohibits vanity plates that “a reasonable person would find offensive to good taste”
Police and fire officials are grappling with how to respond, as the questionable legality of the process has made it difficult to punish amateur chemists
A family can sue the state for negligence after being incorrectly told by state police that a young woman had died in a car accident
Voters will likely get to weigh in on whether Calif. should treat most nonviolent crimes as misdemeanors instead of felonies
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Interactive way of illustrating the use of deadly force is part of unusual training that Houston jurors can receive before they begin hearing cases, including those involving police
Cornealious “Mike” Anderson spent 13 years free from prison due to a clerical error, then nearly a year behind bars when the mistake was caught
Justices let stand a lower court ruling upholding an NJ requirement for gun owners to show an urgent need to carry a handgun outside their home for self-defense
Aurora Police Detective Michael Leiker testified during a pretrial hearing in October that he found evidence of a search for ‘rational insanity’
There is little political will to move against lethal injections — and a single execution gone wrong won’t change that
Marcell Dockery entered his plea in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn as an estimated 70 police officers looked on
Meek Mill called 10-hour traffic stop racially motivated
Pa. police are no longer required to secure a warrant to search a vehicle
Sgt. Lisa Costa claims she was passed over for promotions, denied time off and overtime pay, and dealt with lewd comments from male officers
More than 30 states have laws expanding the self-defense principle known as the “castle doctrine,” a centuries-old premise that a person has the right to defend their home against attack
A man who said he wanted to die during a 2009 shootout alleges that the amount of force used by the defendants was objectively unreasonable
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