Posted on 05/21/2011 3:46:06 PM PDT by Qbert
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Guerena family attorney Christopher Scileppi said he's working with a dead Marine's honor, and a family's grief. He wants to see proof to back up attorney Mike Storie's account of the SWAT raid that left Jose Guerena dead.
Storie held a news conference Thursday and released several new details about the May 5 raid at the Guerena house that have been kept private until now. He detailed why SWAT was serving a search warrant and what they found, and gave a reason for why paramedics waiting at the scene were not allowed inside the house to treat Guerena after he was shot. Storie told KGUN9 that a SWAT robot was sent into the home to examine the threat level, and by then, it was too late for Guerena. Scileppi has continued to argue that Guerena thought he was defending his home from an invasion when SWAT broke down his door.
"The SWAT team has lawyered up and all Mr. Storie, their lawyer, did today was attempt to discredit a Marine who served two tours abroad and put out statements unsupported by facts," Scileppi told KGUN9 News. Now he's calling for Storie and Sheriff Clarence Dupnik to release the reports and documents about the raid.
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Scileppi disputed Storie's account that Guerena ducked or fell into a room where SWAT couldn't see him and be sure he was no longer a threat, and that's why they didn't order medical care for him. Scileppi says blood stains in the house make it look like Guerena went down in the hall where SWAT could see him easily.
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If that’s the wrong house, every officer on the scene deserves a life in prison jail sentence. The ones with any sense of honor should assume room temperature on their own accord.
I don’t have a link. A friend of mine in that area was listening to her show when the incident was mentioned.
OK, thanks for the follow up Harry. I just posted a question over on Tera’s Facebook page. Hopefully, if she has anything, it will be shared before it’s scrubbed
Soooooo... the warrants are sealed, and the cops aren't releasing any information. But somehow, the cops' lawyer gets to selectively release their side of the story as they make it up.
This is stinking worse and worse by the minute.
(BTW, just where ARE those badgelickers? I haven't seen them lately.)
I don’t know if that report was true or not, but there was never any reason to turn loose 71 rounds of rifle ammo in that house. I wonder what would have happened if the Marine had loosed something with a little heft, like a 300 gr projectile at around 2500 fps. With 4400 foot pounds of push right off the muzzle, those fellows would have gone down like bowling pins. Of course he would still be dead, but could have bled out with a little more satisfaction.
Henry Bowman, please pick up the white Courtesy Phone.
I read in an article that the victim had only been in the house for two months, and that the warrant was for the address- not for any named individual.
I'm thinking there are two possibilities here. (1) The cops were acting on old information, in which this was incompetence; or (2) This was what it looks like- a hit, a MURDER, a CRIMINAL act.
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Only piece of information I need to know that this was just “Cowboys and Civilians” being played with big boy toys. All of them need to go down and very hard.
This story makes me sick to my stomach. even worse - the fact that Dupnick is now defending this makes me so enraged you have no idea.
stories like this make me almost feel like a liberal on civil liberties issues.
Get rid of SWAT, patriot ACT, etc. Enough is enough.
If this were a family member of mine, Iwould personally hunt down each one of these thugs with badges and > > .
Good point.
Why not wait till the guy is going to work to pick him up?
Fry every one of these criminal cops - with their families watching - and make an example of this.
I am so sick of this police state nonsense its not funny.
Bullies w Badges need a boot on their throats.
Review your community's standards and you'll be surprized. Once a cop gun is fired, they want the Sallie to be dead.
He sure had a lot say then. And not knowing what he was talking about sure didn't stop him either.
Why not just call the guy an tell him to come down to the station?
That’s pretty much my policy as well.
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Peter principle met decades ago. I don’t mean to sound unglued, but in some cases of arrogance with a badge, more people will suffer at the hand and mouth of this guy if good people do nothing. Why the city / county / state government has not stepped in and removed the guy after the Gabby fiasco I have no idea? The sheriff makes that Moose guy from the DC shooter spree look like a rocket scientist.
I have gotten to the point where i look at 99% of police no different than I do the worst of the pofs in the DMV, but with the ability to kill me.
People are strange that and other ways.
He was not dead when he hit the floor. In other articles his wife saw him on the floor and heard him moaning. He was dying, he was not dead instantly.
Do you know the source of that claim and when it was first made? This is the first I've heard of it.
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