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The Fairfax County police officer who shot an unarmed man to death in January will not be charged with a crime, the county's chief prosecutor announced some yesterday, and the man's family angrily responded by claiming that a civilian in the same situation would have been arrested. From the start, Fairfax police declared that the killing of Salvatore J. Culosi, 37, was an accident and that the SWAT officer who fired had done so unintentionally. Fairfax Commonwealth's Attorney Robert F. Ho Ran Jr. said that when a person fires a gun without malice and unintentionally kills someone, "they do not commit a crime."

With striking regularity, sexual-assault charges at the U.S. Naval Academy are dismissed without trial and the suspects are instead expelled from school, according to an analysis of hundreds of pages of Navy documents. Of 56 midshipmen accused of sexual assault since 1998, only two have been convicted. In virtually every other case in which investigators found evidence of sexual assault, military prosecutors cut deals forcing the alleged offender to leave the academy without facing trial and without having a criminal record.

A Hagerstown woman told a Montgomery County judge that she's partly responsible for sexual assaults committed by her husband, who disguised his face with duct tape and attacked women as they were getting into their cars. "I'm a big part of why Pov is sitting where he's sitting today," Cindy Srun testified during the sentencing hearing of Pov Srun. According to a recording of the hearing, she said her overbearing personality and infidelity probably contributed to the string of sexual assaults. "I'm going to support him because we both made these mistakes," said Srun, who divorced Pov shortly before the assaults and remarried him after his arrest.