Police Chief Who Threatened Facebook Critic With False Arrest Pleads Guilty
Brian Buglio, the police chief in West Hazleton, Pa., agreed to resign as part of a plea agreement, according to court records.
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Brian Buglio, the police chief in West Hazleton, Pa., agreed to resign as part of a plea agreement, according to court records.
A bill that passed the General Assembly with bipartisan support on Sunday would make Illinois the first state to prohibit officers from lying when interrogating those under 18.
Man Sues Hertz Over Lost Receipt That Was His Murder Alibi He spent five years in jail and prison before the car rental company finally located a receipt showing he was nowhere near the scene of the 2011 killing in Michigan. Herbert Alford with his lawyer, Jamie White, in December, after a murder charge against Mr. Alford was dropped.Credit...Nick King/Lansing State Journal, via Associated Press March 11, 2021 A Michigan man has sued Hertz, the car rental company, saying it failed to produce a receipt that would have proved his innocence before he was convicted of a 2011 murder. The man, Herb...
West Linn protests cop on leave from Oregon training agency March 10 2021 Mike Stradley has been on leave from his supervisor role at the state agency for over a year. Mike Stradley, a former West Linn Police Department lieutenant, has been on leave for more than a year while his current employer — the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training — investigates his role in the 2017 false arrest of Michael Fesser. In that time, DPSST has paid him $131,844.91 in salary and benefits, according to the agency's human resources department. In 2017, West Linn police conc...
Priscilla Read Chenoweth, Who Won Freedom for a Stranger, Dies at 90 She spent seven years and much of her retirement savings to prove that a teenager had been wrongly convicted of murder. Priscilla Read Chenoweth in the 1980s. She later turned the study in her home into a makeshift law office, helping to exonerate a young man she was convinced had been wrongfully convicted of murder.Credit...via Chenoweth family Published March 5, 2021Updated March 9, 2021 Priscilla Read Chenoweth, a civil rights activist and lawyer who spent seven years and tens of thousands of dollars of her own money to e...