Nope. Courts always side with the cops.
I thought it was a potato plant ...which BTW I have in my garden...guilty...
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Is this a different story ???
This is a court of LAW, not a court of justice!
Wow! right here in Johnson County, KS.
NO!
The cop was an ENTREPRENEUR:
Local PD’s get extra money from the feds if they make big drug busts.
The factory manager ponders ways of making widgets cheaper, and this cop DOES THIS.
The solution is to make the incentive go away, not to play whack-a-mole.
“Summing up this astounding case, Judge Lucero states, “The defendants caused an unjustified governmental intrusion into the Hartes’ home on nothing more than junk science, an incompetent investigation, and a publicity stunt. The Fourth Amendment does not condone this conduct and neither can I.”
So the case will go back to the district judge with instructions to pay more attention to the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures and its requirement that probable cause be shown before a warrant is issued. Ideally, the officers will be found personally liable and compelled to pay out a lot of compensation to the Harte family. Without that, the police will continue to view people like them as mere collateral damage in their war against drugs.”
Ok, assume the cops made a mistake innocently in deciding they were pot growers. The article details how a SWAT team with assault rifles and battering rams and black uniforms stormed the house.
Was there the slightest evidence that mr. Harte and his family posed any danger requiring such a use of force? Why was this a SWAT raid and not just two men in sport jackets knocking at the front door with a warrant?
How did the dog fare?
How many family pets were shot?
How did the Missouri Highway Patrol allow Deputy Wingnut to spend half his shift watching a legitimate hydroponics business??
Say what you want about Colorado, and most people do, but we don't have SWAT teams invading family homes looking for weed anymore.
Reads like something out of the late 1950s. Weird.