In New Orleans, a judge has thrown out murder charges against seven police officers in the deadly shooting of two people after Hurricane Katrina. The victims, forty-two-year-old Ronald Madison and nineteen-year-old James Brissette, were crossing the Danziger Bridge when they came between a gun battle between a group of armed assailants and the seven officers. Madison, who was mentally handicapped, was shot seven times, including five times in his back. In his dismissal, District Judge Raymond Bigelow said prosecutors violated state law by divulging grand jury testimony to a witness.