LOS ANGELES (AP) _ A jury asked a judge about provocation during its deliberations in the racially charged trial of a former San Francisco Bay area transit officer accused of murder in the shooting of ...

The attorney for the former BART police officer accused of murdering Oscar Grant clashed Tuesday with a reluctant defense witness, a friend of Grant's, over what happened between the defendant and the ...

Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant III in 2009, was quietly released from jail early Monday morning. At approximately 12:01 a.m., Mehserle was released ...

LOS ANGELES Justice will not be served if Johannes Mehserle is sentenced to probation -- that's the argument prosecutor David Stein made on Tuesday in court filings. He says Mehserle's defense that he ...

Johannas Mehserle was released from jail Monday eleven months after being convicted in the shooting death of Oscar Grant. The Superior Court released a document that explained the release. It said ...

Protesters in Los Angeles are expressing outrage over the verdict handed down in the case of Johannes Mehserle. An L.A. jury yesterday found the white former transit officer guilty of involuntary ...

ColorLines is reporting that a Los Angeles judge has denied a request for bail made by a white ex-transit cop convicted of killing an unarmed black man on an Oakland, Calif., train platform on New ...

Fresh from our “You’ve gotta be kidding us” file, Cephus Johnson, the uncle of Oscar Grant, is speaking out against the judge in the Johannes Mehserle case. Mehserle, a former transit officer ...

Former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle and four others were cleared by a federal jury on Thursday of using excessive force during a 2008 confrontation with an Oakland man, sparing the transit ...

OAKLAND — A hearing will stretch into a fourth day as the attorney for a former transit officer charged in the killing of an unarmed man seeks to get the trial moved out of the area. During Thursday’s ...

A disappointingly short sentence now stands as the final result of the deplorable death of BART passenger Oscar Grant. The man responsible, transit police Officer Johannes Mehserle, has left jail ...