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Like the totally innocent kid back east, FBI blasted him in the face for obeying their order to exit the car. He went to get out and they let him have it with a M-16, blowing half his face off. Anyone ever hear how that one came out.

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Like the totally innocent kid back east, FBI blasted him in the face for obeying their order to exit the car. He went to get out and they let him have it with a M-16, blowing half his face off. Anyone ever hear how that one came out.

Baltimore, Md. - A federal judge has ruled that an Anne Arundel County man can sue the FBI (website) agent who shot him in the face after mistaking him for a bank robber. Special agent Christopher Braga shot 21-year-old Joseph Schultz during a botched arrest in March of last year.

Braga had asked the judge to dismiss the case, but the judge granted him only a partial victory - dismissing negligence claims and other allegations, but not the excessive force claim.

The judge dismissed all claims against another agent at the scene, Lawrence Brosnan. One claim remains against a third agent, Henry Hanburger, on grounds he improperly ordered a stop of the car Schultz was in.

http://www.wjla.com/../../news/stories/1103/110348.html <-- Nov 14, 2003

by Gregory Kane, The Baltimore Sun [US]
July 14th, 2002

White is the lawyer for FBI Special Agent Christopher Braga, who shot Joseph Schultz in the face March 1. Braga and other agents had stopped Schultz's girlfriend, Krissy Harkum, as she drove her Pontiac Grand Am along Fort Smallwood Road in Anne Arundel County. Schultz was a passenger in the car. The feds were looking for a bank robber. Problem was - not the only one in this case, and not the biggest - Schultz wasn't the guy.

On July 2, an Anne Arundel grand jury refused to indict Braga for making Schultz endure years of facial reconstructive surgery. Braga had committed neither first-degree assault, second-degree assault nor reckless endangerment, the grand jury ruled after carefully considering the weighty matter for all of 20 minutes.

http://newsfrombabylon.com/article.php?sid=1829 <-- Not original source

I haven't found anything more recent than the November 2003 story. It sounds as though a civil case is proceeding. I don't know if Mr. Schultz received compensation from the FBI for his medical treatment.