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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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They found Owens injured and took her to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. [2] [3] [4] The case received national attention and "reignited" debate around stand-your-ground laws. In August 2024, Lorincz was found guilty of manslaughter, and in November 2024 she was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
At approximately 4:00 p.m., the jury announced that they had found Johannes Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and not guilty of charges for second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter charges. [120] The jury found Mehserle guilty of a gun enhancement charge that could have added up to ten years to his prison sentence, made him ...