Safiyah Riddle
Reporter at Associated Press
Reporter at Freelance
@ap reporter in Alabama via @Report4America [email protected]
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1 day ago |
argus-press.com | Safiyah Riddle
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former Alabama police officer who shot an armed Black man is trying to win back his claim to self-defense before his upcoming murder trial, and appealed a judge's pretrial decision as a “gross abuse of discretion.”The appeal hinges on Alabama’s “ stand your ground ” law, which grants immunity from prosecution to anyone who uses deadly force as long as they reasonably believe they're in danger and are somewhere they're rightfully allowed to be.
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1 day ago |
chronicle-tribune.com | Safiyah Riddle
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A former Alabama police officer who shot an armed Black man is trying to win back his claim to self-defense before his upcoming murder trial, and appealed a judge's pretrial decision as a “gross abuse of discretion.”The appeal hinges on Alabama’s “ stand your ground ” law, which grants immunity from prosecution to anyone who uses deadly force as long as they reasonably believe they're in danger and are somewhere they're rightfully allowed to be.
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2 days ago |
chronicle-tribune.com | Safiyah Riddle
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Iranian mechanical engineering student at the University of Alabama has decided to self-deport after six weeks in a Louisiana detention center despite the government dropping a charge behind his initial arrest, his lawyer and fiancee said.
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2 days ago |
argus-press.com | Safiyah Riddle
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Nearly 60 felony cases will be dropped in a small Alabama town because they were compromised by what a grand jury called a “rampant culture of corruption" in the local police department, according to a statement on Wednesday.
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2 days ago |
chronicle-tribune.com | Safiyah Riddle
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Nearly 60 felony cases will be dropped in a small Alabama town because they were compromised by what a grand jury called a “rampant culture of corruption" in the local police department, according to a statement on Wednesday.
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