[muir_redwoods]

January 7, 2006

This is a hideous crime by the police and I’d love to know the outcome of this 6-1/4 year old case.

[microgood]

This is a hideous crime by the police and I’d love to know the outcome of this 6-1/4 year old case.

It is actually older than that. I found this out from searching Google.

Lebanon Police Lt. Steve Nokes, head of the town's narcotics unit, was fired from the police department and indicted on charges of criminal responsibility for reckless homicide, tampering or fabricating evidence and aggravated perjury. He was acquitted of all charges in June 2001.

But the Lebanon Daily Times reported on May 24 that the city of Lebanon will pay at least $400,000 to Lorine Adams. She has received a lump sum payment of $200,000 and will receive $1,675 per month for the rest of her life. If she lives 15 years, the total pay-out would reach more than half a million dollars. The city also paid John Adams' medical bills of $45,000 and funeral expenses of $5,804. The city's insurance carrier will pay for the settlement. No word yet on Lebanon's new insurance rates.

[VRWCarea51]

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/239/tennesseetown.shtml

[ChocChipCookie]

Where do you see that date?

[Neidermeyer]

Try 12+ years old ... although it does illustrate that the situation has not changed. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/10/06/tennessee.shooting/
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Man killed in police raid on wrong house

October 6, 2000
Web posted at: 12:14 p.m. EDT (1614 GMT)

LEBANON, Tennessee — Police shot and killed a man in his home in Lebanon, Tennessee, after trying to serve a drug search warrant at the wrong house.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Newsbrief: Tennessee Town Pays for Drug Raid Killing 5/31/02
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/239/tennesseetown.shtml

In October 2000, DRCNet reported on a rash of police killings during drug raids gone bad. Among them was the case of John Adams, 62, a black resident of Lebanon, TN, who was shot and killed by a police SWAT team raiding the wrong house on October 4 of that year. After masked officers burst into his home, Adams fired a shotgun at the intruders before they shot and killed him as his wife Lorine, 72, looked on in disbelief.

Lebanon Police Lt. Steve Nokes, head of the town’s narcotics unit, was fired from the police department and indicted on charges of criminal responsibility for reckless homicide, tampering or fabricating evidence and aggravated perjury. He was acquitted of all charges in June 2001.

But the Lebanon Daily Times reported on May 24 that the city of Lebanon will pay at least $400,000 to Lorine Adams. She has received a lump sum payment of $200,000 and will receive $1,675 per month for the rest of her life. If she lives 15 years, the total pay-out would reach more than half a million dollars. The city also paid John Adams’ medical bills of $45,000 and funeral expenses of $5,804. The city’s insurance carrier will pay for the settlement. No word yet on Lebanon’s new insurance rates.

See http://www.drcnet.org/wol/156.html#policeshootings for DRCNet’s October 2000 report on bad drug raids.

This goes back to 2000. The date on this settlement is 2002. The cops involved in this got off scot-free. White cop, black victim seems to be rather commonplace in this part of Tennessee.