Also, they should have never been charged under the 924-c law. There already actions being taken in Congress to have L.E. explicitly exempted from statute. Unfortunately, there a some overzealous prosecutors out there with axes to grind. As the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals noted, law enforcement officers had been prosecuted under 924c in that jurisdiction a number of times before. And it's nice to see that Congress is on the ball. /sarc
Yes, officers that had been determined to be committing actual crimes. Yet even here, R&C were found "not guilty" of attempted murder.
Sutton should have never been allowed to alter the language of the statute.