Another Victory for the ‘Making a Murderer’ Subject Brendan Dassey

By SOPAN DEB June 22, 2017 Brendan Dassey, a subject of the Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer,” won a major court victory on Thursday, as a federal appeals court upheld an earlier ruling by a federal judge overturning his conviction....

Milwaukee Officer Is Acquitted in Killing of Sylville Smith

By KAY NOLAN and JULIE BOSMAN June 21, 2017 MILWAUKEE — A jury here on Wednesday acquitted a police officer in the fatal shooting last August of a 23-year-old man, Sylville K. Smith, a death that touched off two days of protest and violence...

Before the Gunfire in Virginia, a Volatile Home Life in Illinois

By JULIE TURKEWITZ, SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, JOHN ELIGON and ALAN BLINDER June 17, 2017 BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Signs of a deeply disturbed family life kept surfacing from the well-kept house with the pale sun awning and the pretty...

Grim Echoes for Families: An Officer Shoots and a Jury Acquits

By MITCH SMITH, YAMICHE ALCINDOR and JACK HEALY June 17, 2017 ST. PAUL — When the verdict came down on Friday — another police officer found not guilty in the killing of another black man — a father 700 miles away, in...