A white former South Carolina police officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting an unarmed black motorist to death in 2015. A federal judge handed down the sentence for Michael ...

Michael Slager, the former South Carolina police officer who killed unarmed black man Walter Scott, was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in federal prison. US District Court Judge David Norton made his ...

The preliminary sentencing decision from District Judge David Norton comes after Slager pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights offense and was then found to have committed second-degree murder and ...

A prominent Charleston attorney has admitted he blundered in a high profile case involving the shooting death of Walter Scott, a Black man who was fatally shot by North Charleston police officer ...