Ex-Ky. Cop Acquitted in Suspect's Death
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Family and friends of a 19-year-old black man killed by a white police detective were angered by the officer's partial acquittal in the case.
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A man who was left alone with a detective during an interrogation was convicted of murder Tuesday for shooting the officer with his own gun last year inside police headquarters.
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An Upper East Side landlord who pleaded self-defense in the stabbing death of his wife during an argument in their kitchen was acquitted today by a jury in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
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Charges have been dismissed against the former commander of a detention facility where an Iraqi prisoner was dragged by the neck and later died.
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Special prosecutors in Colorado said Friday that DNA found on a murder victim does not match the man convicted for her murder. Tim Masters should be freed immediately while he awaits a new trial, they added. The case of the horrific 1987 killing and 1999 trial has pitted cop against cop and raised many questions about whether an innocent man was convicted.
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A man convicted of fatally shooting a Muncie police officer more than 16 years ago was executed early Friday.
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RALEIGH, N.C.  -- Officials dismissed a murder charge Tuesday against a sheriff's deputy accused of shooting an unarmed teenager who authorities believed had stolen video game consoles, after a grand jury foreman said he had checked the wrong box by mistake on the indictment paperwork.
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The man authorities say killed the rapper Proof in lawful defense of another man during a nightclub shootout was convicted Wednesday of two weapons charges related to the incident.
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The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a murder conviction in the 1994 sniper death of a University of Kentucky athlete, saying the prosecutor committed a "flagrant" violation of the U.S. Constitution.
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A jury of Marine Corps officers on Wednesday found a major guilty of maltreatment and dereliction of duty in connection with the death of an Iraqi inmate, but acquitted him of the most serious charge of assault and battery.
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CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq - A former US commander at the Iraqi jail that held Saddam Hussein was acquitted yesterday of aiding the enemy but received two years imprisonment for convictions on other charges after asking for leniency from the judge.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- A military jury acquitted a Marine major of assault and battery yesterday in connection with the death of an Iraqi prisoner, but found him guilty of two lesser counts.
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The only officer charged in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing, his attorney said Thursday
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A Dutch court has acquitted a marine of criminal negligence in the fatal shooting of an Iraqi civilian last year.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A U.S. military panel Friday  found an Army sergeant innocent of killing an Iraqi civilian,  but guilty of assault, for having subordinates force the Iraqi  off a bridge over the Tigris River, where prosecutors said he  drowned.
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A Kenyan court on Tuesday acquitted two men accused of murdering a British hotelier in the country's Rift Valley town of Naivasha in 2005.
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A Navy SEAL was acquitted of charges that he beat a handcuffed and hooded terrorism suspect who later died, and a second U.S. commando received probation for assaulting another prisoner, attorneys for the men said Monday.