The defense attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd has requested a new trial, saying the court abused its discretion on several points.
The defense has begun its case at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin after 11 days of testimony and a mountain of video depicting George Floyd's final moments.
Authorities say Bertsch, who was 28 at the time, shot three people on Highway 93 near Missoula and then separately shot a trooper a short time later on the night of March 14-15.
The Gazette reports that a Billings residential treatment center for troubled youth failed to keep a 10-year-old boy safe from sexual abuse by other residents, even after facility staff assured his mother it wouldn’t happen. A civil negligence trial got underway Thursday in the 13th Judicial District Court in the case against the Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch...