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A man whose homicide conviction was overturned in a case profiled in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" could be celebrating Thanksgiving at home with his family in Wisconsin after a judge Monday ordered him released from prison. Brendan Dassey's release was ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge William Duffin even as prosecutors appeal the judge's earlier ruling overturning Dassey's conviction.
Jurors were shown portions of the enhanced slow-motion footage and some still images, but little can be discerned from them. Minutes before 5 p.m., the judge was delivered a note.
A correction's official says the planned execution of an Alabama inmate is being delayed by two hours while the U.S. Supreme Court reviews the man's appeal. Tommy Arthur, 74, was originally scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. CDT for the shooting death of a man in a 1982 murder-for-hire arrangement.
This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Bill Kuenzel, sentenced to death for the shooting death of store clerk Linda Jean Offord in 1987. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday Oct. 31, 2016 declined to hear an appeal by the inmate, who claims he is innocent.
People within Hillary Clinton's campaign were upset that the shooters of the 2015 San Bernardino massacre were Muslim, a new WikiLeaks email drop of a batch of messages show.
Jon Voight released a pro-Donald Trump video on Thursday warning Americans what a Hillary Clinton presidency would do to the economy, the Constitution and the country's stability. In his video titled, "Plea to Save America," the 77-year-old actor said the 2016 presidential election "will be the most important" in American history.
A report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice cites numerous indicators of implicit and institutionalized bias against minority groups by members of the San Francisco Police Department. Additionally, on traffic stops, African American drivers were disproportionately stopped and African American and Hispanic drivers were disproportionately searched and arrested compared to whites.
A 57-year-old man has spent nearly 70 percent of his life in prison after being convicted in 1977 of murdering an off-duty Detroit police officer on July 31, 1976. Charles Lewis is hoping two U.S. Supreme Court rulings that determined it's cruel and unusual punishment to sentence minors to automatic life in prison, as well as poor record keeping by court staff who can't locate Lewis's full court file, will lead to his freedom.
A federal judge has tossed out a $40 million civil rights lawsuit that alleged police used excessive force against protesters in Ferguson after the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown. U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey, in a 74-page ruling Friday in St. Louis, found that the nine plaintiffs "completely failed to present any credible evidence" proving crowd-control tactics by police in the days following Brown's August 2014 death in the St. Louis suburb involved malice or bad faith.
A funeral service card bearing the likeness of Tyre King, the 13-year-old Ohio boy who was fatally shot by Columbus police, is carried by a mourner, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, outside the First Church of God in Columbus, Ohio.
A white Memphis police officer won't face federal civil rights charges in the shooting death of a 19-year-old black man, the federal government announced Tuesday. A white Memphis police officer won't face federal civil rights charges in the shooting death of a 19-year-old black man, the federal government announced Tuesday.
After months of tangling from afar, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will confront each other face-to-face for the first time in Monday night's presidential debate, laying out for voters their vastly different... With millions watching and the American presidency on the line, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are poised for a must-see showdown Monday night, pitting the Democrat's call for steady, experienced leadership against... The U.S. Coast Guard says one of two Connecticut boaters who had been missing for a week has been found alive, drifting on an inflatable life raft off the coast of Massachusetts.
Arcan Cetin, 20-yr-old Oak Harbor resident, is a suspect in the killing of five people in the Cascade Mall on Sept. 23. Arcan Cetin, 20-yr-old Oak Harbor resident, is a suspect in the killing of five people in the Cascade Mall on Sept.
Dozens of protesters continued to march in the city's business district past the midnight Friday curfew into early Saturday. Police said they would take a similar approach to Thursday night, when they allowed demonstrators to stay out past the curfew as long as they were peaceful.
The Philippine president said Thursday he will invite the U.N. chief and European Union officials to investigate his bloody anti-drug crackdown, but only if he can question them in public afterward to prove their human rights concerns are baseless. President Rodrigo Duterte disclosed the offer in a speech in which he again lashed out at critics of his crackdown, including President Barack Obama and European countries.
In this file photo, Chicago's police superintendent Eddie Johnson, left, shakes hands with other officers at a city council meeting in Chicago. The Chicago Police Department plans to hire more than 500 additional officers as it struggles to deal with a violent year full of killings and gun crimes, a city official told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The Chicago Police Department launched mandatory training designed to help officers de-escalate conflicts, including situations involving the use of force and mental health issues. The program, which Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is scheduled to discuss Monday evening, is among several department reforms following the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
Police in Albuquerque were already under scrutiny for a series of fatal shootings when officers responded March 16, 2014, to a complaint about a homeless man camping in the foothills above the city. Hours later, after a tense standoff, the man lay dead, shot three times by police.