What sort of community service can a man paralyzed from the waist down perform? Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will soon find out. It was August when the 26-year-old Timothy Nabors took seven bullets from Officer Michael Lutz. Lutz claimed Nabors was armed, though a witness insisted otherwise. That's irrelevant, though, because - after waking from his coma, paralyzed from his wounds - prosecutors made Nabors a deal. All he had to do was admit holding a gun a little bit, and they'd go easy on him.

In a Milwaukee County Court, Nabors sheepishly told Judge Charles F. Kahn that he'd picked up a gun a friend had tossed him "by the barrel."

"I have better things to do than point a gun at a police officer," Nabors added. "I didn't do nothing."

Good enough for the State of Wisconsin. Nabors was sentenced to a year's probation, community service and a day in jail for possession of marijuana. Prosecutors exonerated Lutz and his partner of any wrongdoing.

» Scott Saxon