Guerena family attorney responds to SWAT lawyer (Wants Pima Sheriff Dupnik to release reports)

KGUN9-TV (ABC) ^ | 5/19/2011 | Craig Smith, Layla Tang

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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.

 

[MileHi]

There is a lawyer in Michigan, Jeffry Feiger or something, he once reduced a local DA to tears in the courtroom. A real fire breather he is.

May be, but he is a leftist prick too.

[Big_Harry]

I just called my brother in Tucson and he said that the Democratic machine that runs Tucson had complete control of the media so there wasn’t much word getting out. The sheriff just wants everyone to quit talking so everything will die down.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Standards for all law enforcement have dropped to bargain basement levels over recent years. Many are corrupt and even drug-addicted. It seems we have some local cop/sheriff in our Middle Tennessee area caught at something or other every few days or once a week at least. And those are just the ones who get caught.

[Ken H]

It's hard for me to imagine someone remaining alive and moaning after being shot 60 times. Also, 60 hits out of 71 fired sounds like an awfully high accuracy rate. They even had to search other houses in the vicinity that were hit by their stray fire.

Is that a solid number?

[az_gila]

They had this vehicle they had to use...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23591285@N07/3946303667

[PalmettoMason]

Do you know the source of that claim and when it was first made? This is the first I've heard of it

It was in one of the articles posted on FR. I also remember one of the posters saying that it is typical for a warrant to be issued for a specific location... that only arrest warrants are for a specific individual.

Sounds reasonable to me.

[blackdog]

And yet I live in Memphis and find the cops in my neighborhood to be some of the best.

My theory is that smaller cities, suburban and rural communities are victimized by the cops because of job justification and a judicial bench with a false sense of priorities. They see the public as the soil in which they take root. In large cities, they don't have to take root to stay needed.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

It seems we have some local cop/sheriff in our Middle Tennessee area caught at something or other every few days or once a week at least. And those are just the ones who get caught.

Tennessee ranks 8th in the nation for rates of Police Misconduct.

http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/?p=4053

[chainsaw]

But why did they target this guy? Something is rotten in Pima county!

Your right. The Sheriff!

[Lloyd227]

"(BTW, just where ARE those badgelickers? I haven't seen them lately.) "

I've avoided bringing this up until now, but have definitely noticed that as FR has moved more conservative, i.e. more VOCALLY conservative, the bootlickers that used to even serve as moderators here have either changed their tune or moved on.

Nicely done JimRob whatever it was!

[Popman]

KGUN9 reporter Craig Smith asked Scileppi about Mike Storie's assertion that SWAT found in Guerena's home several assault weapons, body armor, and parts of police-style uniforms consistent with the theory the house was associated with home invaders who might pose as a SWAT team.

Wow, these sleazebags are trying to set this dead Marine up as a home invasion thug

I'm speechless, but not surprised

[Emmett McCarthy]

Yes, the smaller jurisdictions and the county sheriff’s departments seem to be the worst.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.

[blackdog]

Is there any tactic more successfully used in progressive liberal circles than the o'l "ACCUSE THE ACCUSER" rouse?

Whether it's republicans rolling granny off a cliff instead of fund medicare, while you're organizing care rationing panels behind the scenes, or calling oil companies cronie capitalists while you give a wink-n-nod to General Electric running policy and tax law in the whitehouse, the tune is alway's the same. You fake outrage at the other side for the crimes you are committing at the very moment.

How the media doesn't look sideways at the tactic when it's used is beyond stupid.

[TigersEye]

Scileppi says blood stains in the house make it look like Guerena went down in the hall where SWAT could see him easily.

After taking sixty bullets I doubt he moved much myself. That is an average of 14.2 rounds per officer. Some fire control there, clowns.

[maine-iac7]

Man, this whole thing just blows my mind. The guy did two tours in a combat zone but when the SWAT guys busted in he didn’t fire a shot? I can understand the cops being nervous about a man with a rifle, but some reports say it was still on safe when he was killed. I think that shows remarkable restraint for a man who had probably been shot at before.

A former Marine, 2 tours in Iraq...was asleep after his shift in the mines - wonder where he found time to run a criminal organization?

Neighbors say - no sirens, no lights.

Is wife sees a man outside the window pointing a gun at her. She screams for her husband to wake up. He tells her to take their child and hide in the closet. (Would he do that if he knew they were police?) After 6 days of maintaining he shot at them, they finally had to admit he never took his safety off.

71 shots - 60 hit him. I doubt he crawled anywhere.

71 bullets piercing walls - with a child in the house.

His wife call 911 and an EMT team that was at a station 1 block away was there immediately. They were refused entry for over an hour.

This Sheriff DipStick is the one, remember, after the massacre that left, among other, a judge and a little girl dead and Gabby Gifford with a bullet in her head - spouted off that it was no doubt some disgruntled Tea Party guy.

Yep, we can sure believe whatever comes out of THAT office.

I wouldn't doubt some stuff got planted in that hour and 14 minutes after the MURDER. And even if not, heck, I'm an old great granny. They could come in my house and 'find' weapons, some dark clothing (that might be used in a night raid to look like police - uh huh) - the only thing they wouldn't find is a bullet proof vest...not that they'd have a hard time planting one of those. But I wouldn't think it that unusual for a former Marine with two combat tours to also have one, especially since there had already been family members gunned down in a night raid of criminals.

But we must remember, returning vets, along with Tea Party folk ARE listed on the suspected terrorist list by the Homeland Security...therefore, the police would be so trained to suspect, especially with a chief who has already shown his bias against Tea Party folk.

WE live in dangerous times.

[blackdog]

Dying isn't quite like in the movies. I think they shot him so many times it became hard for him to bleed out! The circulatory system needs pressure to maintain velocity. They made so many holes in him he had no ability to build up enough pressure to bleed with efficiency. He just had to lay there while he bled out like a used teabag.

There is going to be a special place for this bunch in Tucson. I hope they think twice before showing up at the front door in a Toys for Tots drive by the marines.

[GlockThe Vote]

I’m not kidding when I say that I want that entire squad doing life.

[hfr]

yes.

I’m just saying the widow needs a real fire breathing lawyer to tear things up.

[TigersEye]

That is an interesting theory about blood pressure but even accepting that it simply supports my contention that he wasn’t moving much. No BP no consciousness.