Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

His attorney says Terry Jon Martin gave into temptation after an associate with connections to the mob persuaded him that the famous shoes were adorned with real rubies.

Commissioners also finalized a new state seal that depicts a loon.

Wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and fertility of domestic swine.

Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit.

Tou Thao had testified that he merely served as a “human traffic cone” when he held back concerned bystanders who gathered as officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes.

A federal judge handed down a sentence for Thomas Lane well below what prosecutors and Floyd’s family sought.

A federal judge on Thursday told Derek Chauvin that what he did was “simply wrong” and “offensive.”

The punishment handed out Friday fell short of the 30 years that prosecutors had requested.

While the verdict was celebrated by activists and brought a sense of relief, talk soon turned to ambitions for greater change outside the courtroom.

The defense at the murder trial of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd wrapped up its case Thursday without putting Chauvin on the stand, presenting a total of two days of testimony to the prosecution’s two weeks.

George Floyd died of a sudden heart rhythm problem due to his heart disease while being restrained by police, a retired forensic pathologist testified for the defense Wednesday at former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, contradicting several experts who said Floyd succumbed to a lack of oxygen.

Seth Stoughton, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, judged Chauvin’s actions against what a reasonable police officer in the same situation would have done, and repeatedly found that Chauvin did not meet the test.

The chief medical examiner who ruled Floyd’s death a homicide testified that the way police held him down and compressed his neck “was just more than Mr. Floyd could take.”

Dr. Martin Tobin told the jury that Floyd’s breathing was severely constricted while former Officer Derek Chauvin and two other Minneapolis officers held him against the ground.

Jody Stiger, a Los Angeles Police Department sergeant, said that Chauvin applied pressure to Floyd’s neck area from the time officers began pinning him until paramedics began to move him to a stretcher.