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Rankin was found guilty of manslaughter, but not guilty of murder. [80] 4 April 2015: Michael Slager 2 May 2017 (pleaded guilty) North Charleston Police Department (South Carolina) Slager fatally shot 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back as he fled after being stopped for an inoperative brake light. Slager then dropped his Taser by Scott's ...
Mendoza was cleared by psychiatrists to stand trial on April 2, 2019. On April 11, 2019, Mendoza initially pled not guilty to the murder, [14] but later pled guilty to first-degree murder as well as other special circumstances on a trial on November 5, 2020 [15] as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. He was sentenced to life without ...
Thomas died from his injuries in December 2015. In October 2016, Feaster was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. [46] 26 September 2016: Terence Crutcher, 40, was shot and killed by police officer Betty Jo Shelby in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was unarmed during the encounter, in which he was standing near his vehicle in the middle of a street.
A former San Diego sheriff’s deputy who already pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for the 2020 fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect has been indicted on two federal charges that could ...
A police officer who fatally shocked a 95-year-old woman with a Taser in an Australian nursing home has been found guilty of manslaughter after the jury found that the great-grandmother, who was ...
Nearly three years after a Bay Area man died when police pinned him facedown, in a case that drew comparisons to the killing of George Floyd, the Alameda Police Department officers involved have ...
Wife of actor Robert Blake shot and killed in parked car at restaurant, Blake was tried and found not guilty [10] [7] [202] 49: Murder of Samantha Runnion: Stanton: 2002-07-15: Five-year-old girl abducted from her home and murdered [203] [204] 50: Murder of Laci Peterson: Modesto: 2002-12-24: Murder of pregnant woman by her husband, Scott ...
The Superior Court of Alameda County convicted defendant Huey P. Newton of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a California police officer. On appeal, the Court of Appeal of California (First District, Fourth Division) reversed the defendant's conviction and ordered a new trial.