Crime, Law and Justice

Fugitive sentenced to life in prison for murder
A Minnesota woman who led authorities on a cross-country manhunt pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Florida courtroom to fatally shooting a woman who prosecutors said was targeted because the two looked alike.
Twenty-two-year-old Colten Treu pleaded no contest Monday to four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle. Treu also pleaded guilty to hit-and-run involving great bodily harm. He earlier had pleaded not guilty in the November 2018 crash.
Justin Hiemstra of St. Paul Park, Minn., and Andrew Harris of Philadelphia have been given two years' probation and 200 hours of community service for trying to hack the IRS to obtain President Trump's tax returns. They both pleaded guilty to federal computer fraud charges.
Case connected to Duluth lynchings up for review
Max Mason, 21, was convicted in 1920 of assaulting a young Duluth woman who claimed to have been assaulted by six black circus workers on June 14 of that year. The accusation led to the most infamous day in Duluth's history, when three black men were lynched by a mob of up to several thousand residents.
Mississippi man freed months after court rules racial bias
Curtis Flowers walked out of the regional jail in Louisville on Monday, hours after a judge set his bond at $250,000. His case was the subject of the second season of the APM Reports podcast In The Dark.
Wife of man fatally shot by Mpls. police downplays threatening behavior
Police said officers shot a suspect after he came out of the home, in what the department called an armed confrontation. His wife said she didn't believe he posed a threat to police and had surrendered.