Seattle Seahawks NFL football wide receiver Doug Baldwin talks to reporters in November, after he testified in Olympia at a joint legislative task force on the use of deadly force in community ...

SEATTLETIMES.COM - Washington's 25-year-old law regulating the use of deadly force by police provides a much broader defense than most other states' laws, a key reason that officers are rarely ...

Tom McBride, executive secretary for the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, explains the police officer use of force rules during a joint legislative task force on Washington’s police ...

In the 32 years since state lawmakers dictated that police officers must show evil intent before they can be criminally charged for misusing deadly force, one officer was prosecuted and he was found ...

Sue Rahr addresses the legislative task force formed to recommend policy to next year’s Legislature on how to reduce violent interactions involving law enforcement during its Tuesday meeting at the ...

[I]n this sad tale of murder and mental instability, SCOV was asked to tie together two stray threads of our jurisprudence and clarify whether diminished capacity can relieve a defendant of ...

"Malice is a question of law for the court to decide and the most you could conclude is the people you just mentioned are liars," said Circuit Judge Paul Niemeyer, who compared the editorial missteps ...