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A Tuscaloosa County man is facing a possible death sentence in the shooting death of his own son. via Fox News

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Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has brought all gun cases in Detroit to a standstill in an effort to stem a deluge of appeals from defense lawyers while the Detroit Police firearms analysis unit is under ...

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An armed man was fatally shot by a Kansas City police officer after raising his gun. via KCTV Kansas City

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Pleadead guilty ... Christopher Wayne Hudson. Photo: Channel Nine Christopher Wayne Hudson has pleaded guilty to shooting three people, killing one, in Melbourne's CBD last year. via The Sydney Morning Herald

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The attorney for a Baraboo father accused of killing his 5-week-old sons has won the right to search his client's rented condo. via WEAU-TV Eau Claire

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Three men have been sentenced to life in prison in the shooting death of a teen outside a Lincolnville home nearly two years ago. via Spartanburg Herald-Journal

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“There are things about him being a police officer that make it more likely that he did”

May 11, 2008 9:58 AM By DAVID MERCER, AP 1 hr 10 ago: Ex-Ill. sergeant accused of rape to go on trial Four times between the winters of 2002 and 2005, a blue-eyed man wearing a ski mask and dark clothes crept ... via Examiner.com

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“And you will allow Ms. Foster and Mr. Koselke to represent you?”

INDIANAPOLIS -- Attorneys for a man accused of killing three family members in 2005 have talked him out of his request to represent himself, plead guilty and accept the death penalty. via The Indianapolis Star

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Former state trooper James Bonard Fowler has no trial date a year after being indicted for a fatal shooting in 1965 that became a catalyst for the historic voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery. via ABC 33/40

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“He dealt with the chief in a discourteous manner, which is unacceptable”

A white police officer was disciplined after he stopped and questioned a black motorist who turned out to be one of the highest ranking commanders in the New York City Police Department.

Chief Douglas Zeigler, the head of the NYPD's Community Affairs Bureau and the highest uniformed black officer on the force, was off duty and sitting in his department-issued SUV on a Queens street on May 2 when two white police officers approached the vehicle and confronted him.

The full details of what happened next aren't completely clear, but a department spokesman confirmed a report in the New York Daily News that the encounter turned testy, and one of the officers tried to wrest open Zeigler's door, even after the three-star chief had identified himself. Read more

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