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Jurors also asked if they could examine a key pieces of evidence — her gun — by removing it from the box.

The defense rested after the accused explained why she stopped the victim, but couldn't fully explain why she grabbed her gun instead of her Taser.

The video, filmed at Lafayette city judge Michelle Odinet’s home, captures purported family members using the N-word while comparing Black people to cockroaches.

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give her bus seat to a white woman, has finally gotten her criminal record for the protest expunged.

Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam were wrongfully convicted in 1966 of playing roles in the assassination. Now Aziz and Islam's estate have announced plans to sue.

The former Minneapolis police officer also pled guilty to violating the rights of a teenage boy in a separate 2017 case.

While father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael along with their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan will all get life, Judge Timothy R. Walmsley will decide if any of them can be considered for parole in the future.

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd. Now he is expected to plead guilty to violating Floyd's civil rights. 

Arrested for speeding, the former football player made bond and was supposed to have been transferred to a medical facility before he died.

The investigation was reopened in 2017 after a key witness allegedly recanted her story, but both perpetrators are deceased.