After a Baltimore police trial board found Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. not guilty of all administrative charges Tuesday in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, legal analysts said the cases against two colleagues will likely zero in on what additional responsibility they had as...
U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, A Republican former prosecutor and judge in Texas, will retire from Congress next year, the Texas Tribune reports. Poe and Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA) founded the Congressional Victim’s Rights Caucus. Poe said he had stressed “giving crime victims a voice, helping...
Ohio crime victims will have rights enshrined in the state constitution for the first time, as voters overwhelmingly approved State Issue 1 on Tuesday, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Professional organizations for lawyers objected to the constitutional amendment. Still, the issue’s chief backer said he wants...
St. Louis police officers and firefighters will soon see a boost in their paychecks, thanks to a half-cent sales tax increase voters approved on Tuesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. It needed a simple majority to pass, and won easily with roughly 60 percent of...
Staff shortages in North Carolina’s prisons have climbed to dangerous levels over the past two years, despite state efforts to attract more officers, the Charlotte Observer reports. Last month, 16 percent of the state’s prison officer positions were vacant, up from 9 percent in January...
The Arkansas Supreme Court halted the planned execution of an inmate whose lawyers claim is severely mentally ill, while a state judge ordered officials to release more information about one of the lethal injection drugs they had planned to use, The Guardian reports. Jack Greene...