1 Home detention:

A white former police chief in South Carolina will have to spend a year under home detention but won’t have to serve any prison time in the 2011 shooting death of an unarmed black man. Prosecutors agreed Tuesday to drop a murder charge against 38-year-old Richard Combs, the former police chief of the small town of Eutawville, in exchange for his guilty plea to misconduct in office. The murder charge carried a penalty of 30 years to life. Circuit Judge Edgar Dickson suspended a 10-year prison sentence for Combs as long as he completes his home detention and five years of probation.