A pair of San Francisco police officers involved in the wrongful murder conviction of Joaquin Ciria, who spent 32 years in ...

Imagine you're a sheriff's deputy and a detainee arrives, unresponsive and moving slowly after ingesting a large quantity of unknown pills. After a doctor clears him for jail, with a warning that any ...

The appeals court said it was “beyond debate” the tactics the defendants used to identify a suspect violated the accused ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit upheld a Texas federal court’s denial of qualified immunity to former cop Aaron Dean, who shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in her home within seconds of encountering ...

Qualified immunity is a judge-made doctrine that routinely shields bad cops from facing civil lawsuits over their abusive and ...

A federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas denied qualified immunity—a legal doctrine that protects local and state government officials from civil liability unless their actions violate a ...