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Jim Rogers reportedly asked for help at least 13 times as he sat in the back of a Pittsburgh police vehicle after being stunned with a taser eight times on Oct. 13. For 17 minutes, Rogers banged his head off the seat and repeated, “‘I need a hospital, I can’t

Thomas Dunlevy was in court Monday and still faces several misdemeanor charges.

Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning, who served on the bench for more than 30 years, has retired. Appointed in 1988, Manning, who previously worked as a prosecutor in the district attorney’s office and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Pittsburgh, was elected to his first 10-year term in

A former Greensburg doctor who pleaded guilty to health care fraud and conspiracy for illegally prescribing a potent painkiller will serve nearly five years in prison. Thomas Whitten, 71, pleaded guilty in July to taking kickbacks from Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company that makes Subsys, a painkiller 50 to 100

The attorney for a Vandergrift woman accused in the 2018 fatal shooting of her cousin is expected to present a psychiatric defense at trial. Attorney Patrick Thomassey told Judge Scott Mears of the plan Monday during a hearing for Ashley Croft, 38. She is accused of fatally shooting John Edward

A Monroeville man is accused of taping a smartphone to his shoe to take inappropriate photos and videos under two women’s skirts at a Murrysville Sheetz, police said. Brandon Scott Bass was charged after a monthlong investigation into a Sept. 27 incident at the Route 22 convenience store where a

Heres why its rare for police officers to be convicted of murder Share Updated: 10:36 PM CDT Apr 20, 2021 Emma Tucker, Mark Morales and Priya Krishnakumar, CNN Heres why its rare for police officers to be convicted of murder Share Updated: 10:36 PM CDT Apr 20, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript we the jury in the above entitled matter as to count one unintentional second degree murder while committing a felony buying the defendant guilty. Former police offi...

Prosecutors rarely charged police who kill people. When they do, most officers walk free. Derek Chauvin is one of the exceptions.

Print article The case against Derek Chauvin looked formidable. Video footage captured him with his knee pressed against George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes. Former Minneapolis police colleagues testified against Chauvin. Medical experts convincingly tied Floyd’s death to Chauvin’s use of force. But, legal experts said, Chauvin had one big factor in his favor: He was a police officer. And that meant prosecutors faced long odds. In the end, they overcame those odds. Chauvin w...

As a Minnesota jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter charges, law enforcement experts note how rare it is that police officers involved in high-profile, and sometimes deadly, on-duty incidents ever face criminal charges or are convicted. Experts point to several factors, which include laws that protect an officers right to use force, advantages from powerful police unions, prosecutors who may face a conflict of interest, and even jury pools...