Mark Berman

The outcome, experts said, was due to an overwhelming case presented by prosecutors, and because the defense could not overcome the trial’s centerpiece: the video of George Floyd gasping for air as he was pinned to the ground.

Officers in more than a dozen cities have contracted the novel virus, which has killed at least six police officers and employees nationwide.

Ginsburg, 85, was the first justice to ask a question during the oral arguments in a case centering on whether the government could be considered a “person” able to challenge a patent.

Similar threats appeared to stretch from coast to coast, prompting investigations on colleges campuses in Washington state and Pennsylvania and spreading across cities such as New York, Washington, Chicago and San Francisco.

Social media profiles that apparently belonged to Sayoc were filled with conspiracy theories and antipathy toward liberals.

There were 149 people exonerated in the United States last year after being wrongly convicted of crimes, a tally that included dozens convicted of murder and an uptick in people who had pleaded guilty or falsely confessed.

FBI officials moved aggressively Thursday to dispel questions about the shooting death Tuesday of one of the most high-profile occupiers of a rural Oregon wildlife refuge, releasing a video that appears to show the man reaching for a loaded handgun.

Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, was arrested and later died in a county jail. Her death was one of several incidents last year that sparked demonstrations and anger over the way police officers treated black Americans.

More than half of the 48 people who died after police used the weapon suffered from mental illness or had illegal drugs in their system at the time. At least 10 were Tasered while handcuffed or shackled.