A jury convicted a wealthy stock trader of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter Wednesday in the fiery death of a man who was helping him secretly dig tunnels for an underground nuclear bunker beneath his Maryland home.
Read moreThe former partner of an ex-Minnesota police officer on trial for killing an unarmed Australian woman testified Thursday that the use of deadly force was premature in the circumstances they faced.
Read moreJurors heard opening arguments Tuesday in the murder trial of a former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape in an alley near her home, with his defense attorney arguing he feared an ambush.
Read moreGraphic footage shown to jurors in the upcoming trial of a former Minnesota police officer charged with killing an Australian woman will not be played for the public and the media, a state judge ruled Friday.
Read moreA pilot whose plane crashed and killed 11 people at an English airshow has been cleared of manslaughter charges.
Read moreA South Florida police officer is headed to prison for the 2015 shooting death of a drummer stranded on the side of the road, whom he confronted in undercover clothing with no visible badge, triggering a fatal encounter between the two armed men.
Read moreA Kansas judge dismissed all criminal charges against Schlitterbahn Waterpark officials on Friday, finding the Kansas Attorney General’s office submitted improper evidence to a grand jury in the case of a 10-year-old boy who was killed while riding the park’s 17-story Verruckt water slide.
Read moreA Massachusetts woman who sent her suicidal boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself was jailed Monday on an involuntary manslaughter conviction nearly five years after he died in a truck filled with toxic gas.
Read moreProsecutors are asking a judge to order a Massachusetts woman to begin serving her 15-month jail sentence for encouraging her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself.
Read moreThe highest court in Massachusetts upheld the involuntary manslaughter conviction Wednesday of a teen whose ex-boyfriend killed himself after she encouraged him in text messages to do so.
Read moreA male St. Louis police officer was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a female officer during what was described as a deadly game with a revolver.
Read moreThere will be no third criminal trial for a U.S. Border Patrol agent acquitted twice in the death of a Mexican teen he shot in 2012 through an urban fence separating Arizona from Mexico, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Read moreA small, loud protest erupted outside the Evo A. DeConcini Courthouse Wednesday after a federal jury acquitted a U.S. Border Patrol agent of involuntary manslaughter in the 2012 shooting death of a Mexican teenager.
Read moreFormer Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz wasn’t scared for his life in October 2012 when he fired his handgun through a border fence, killing a Mexican teen who was lobbing rocks up and over the barrier, the lead prosecutor in Swartz’s federal manslaughter trial told the jury Friday.
Read moreThe parents of an unarmed black man shot and killed after a Dallas cop apparently mistook his apartment for her own sued the officer Friday, claiming he was subjected to excessive force and that her social media posts indicate violent behavior.
Read moreA federal jury heard opening arguments Tuesday in the retrial of former Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz, who was acquitted in April of second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting death of a Mexican teen.
Read moreA second federal trial starts Tuesday for a former U.S. Border Patrol agent who six years ago this month opened fire through a fence at the U.S.-Mexico border, striking and killing a Mexican teenager.
Read moreAt the sentencing of rap producer Marion “Suge” Knight on Thursday, family of the man Knight ran over in a Compton parking lot in 2015 said they were forced to watch the man’s death multiple times as surveillance footage leaked by TMZ played out in the media.
Read moreDays ahead of a long-awaited trial on murder charges, embattled rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight pleaded no contest Thursday to voluntary manslaughter stemming from a 2015 fatal hit and run.
Read moreAttorneys for the family of an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a white Dallas cop who mistook his apartment for her own disputed Tuesday her claims that his door was ajar, citing witnesses who say they heard a female voice commanding the door be opened.
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