• States reconsider suspending licenses of drivers with drug convictions

    States reconsider suspending licenses of drivers with drug convictions

    Jan 31, 2017 08:47 PM EDT

    ... judges, prosecutors and, in Massachusetts, the attorney general. “We want to make sure people who have done their time don’t suffer doubly,” said Brian Ferguson, director of the Mayor’s Office on Returning Citizen Affairs in Washington, D.C. Calculating Risk In most states that automatically suspend licenses for ...

  • Why are indictments rare when people of color die in police custody?

    Why are indictments rare when people of color die in police custody?

    Dec 22, 2015 11:39 PM EDT

    ... Bland's death. As captured on video, the Chicago-area woman was pulled over by a Texas state trooper in July for making an improper lane change. It quickly turned into a confrontation, as Bland refused to get out of her car, and trooper Brian Encinia brandished a stun gun ...

  • U.S. Justice Department to investigate Chicago police

    U.S. Justice Department to investigate Chicago police

    Dec 07, 2015 02:54 PM EDT

    ... said. "And when suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest." The civil rights probe follows recent ones in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, and comes as the police department and Mayor Rahm Emanuel are under intense scrutiny over their handling of the October 2014 death of ...

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    John Allen Muhammad's Self Defense

    Oct 21, 2003 04:00 AM EDT

    ... cases where the defendants have represented themselves, including Dr. Jack Kevorkian, convicted in 1999 of second-degree murder in the death of a patient; Colin Ferguson, convicted in the 1993 shootings on a New York commuter train that killed six people and wounded nine; and Ted Bundy, convicted of killing ...

  • Men face prison for human smuggling after Indian family of 4 died while attempting to cross U.S.-Canada border

    Men face prison for human smuggling after Indian family of 4 died while attempting to cross U.S.-Canada border

    May 28, 2025 06:20 PM EDT

    ... guilty verdicts, writing, “This was not a close case.” Tunheim will hand down the sentences at the federal courthouse in the northwestern Minnesota city of Fergus Falls, where the two men were tried and convicted on four counts apiece last November. The smuggling operation Prosecutors said during the trial that ...