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- A recent U.S. Supreme Court case made it harder to sue police for barging into a home and provoking a shooting. The case rejects the provocation rule wherein police can be sued for violating a victim's constitutional rights against unreasonable searches if they provoked a confrontation that resulted in violence. The ruling holds that police cannot be held liable for injuries they caused as part of a search unless the search itself is unreasonable.
- A new law, effective 2018, states that defendants accused of murder will no longer be allowed to try to reduce their possible sentences using what is known as the "gay panic' defense by saying their violence was an act of passion after learning a victim was gay. And sexual orientation cannot be considered provocation for second degree murder.
