Illinois lawmakers are considering reinstating voting rights for people currently serving a felony sentence.
Author: Eric Ferkenhoff, USA TODAY
At ‘ground zero for modern civil rights,’ will vote on future of police reverberate across US?
Minneapolis, home of George Floyd, may vote to dramatically change police on Nov. 2. How will this change reverberate across the US?
At 14, he found his mother murdered. Police suspected him because he was ‘acting normal.’ His case gets a new look.
Did officers’ hunches and bad evidence about a traumatized 14-year-old lead to a wrongful murder conviction? The Missouri Supreme Court will decide.
Chauvin expected to file appeal of guilty verdict. But the issues to be raised are up for debate.
Now that fired police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted on all three counts against him, he can still file an appeal. But the odds are not good, considering some 90% of appeals are denied across the United States.
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Eric Nelson isn’t working alone to defend Derek Chauvin: A police legal fund is backing him up with a dozen lawyers and $1 million
Minnesota’s largest federation of officers and unions supports Eric Nelson’s defense of Derek Chauvin with a dozen lawyers and a million dollars.