Excellent news via Radly Balko at Reason.
Decision (which nobody seems to have read yet) here.
His original conviction, for defending himself and his infant child from a home invader who turned out to be a cop on a wrong-house raid, is a travesty. I certainly hope justice is served this time, and I hope cops everywhere take away the message busting down doors in the middle of the night is a desperation move, not something you do for small enough quantities of drugs that they can be flushed.
And most especially, that cops begin to get it that a “dynamic entry” against the wrong damn house is not ever in accordance with “proper procedure”.
In a nation ruled by armed citizens, it is quite properly asking for an instantaneous and righteous death sentence for the officers involved. When it happens it is utterly and completely the fault of the officers involved. Period. You better read the damn warrant, and check the address twice, because you are betting your life on it.
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