As it stands, he is innocent, until proven guilty.
Was Detective Shivers executing a no-knock entry?
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Wait a minute/... guilty of what again?
Defending his home? Was there any real evidence to suggest a warrant? Was it the right house even?
If I hear someone crashing into MY home in the middle of the night, there’s going to be shots fired and someone is going down. Maybe me, maybe a police officer, but there’d better be no ONE kicking my door in, in the middle of the night without at least coming to talk to me in the DAY time first (I’m not a criminal, and there wouldn’t be a reason for a warrant.... in the first place).... So, someone kicking in MY door is probably going to get shot too. Is that MURDER? No. It’s defending my home.
Here’s an article posted/discussed at the time of the original incident:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956090/posts
Hopefully, Kerry Dougherty will be the victim of a no knock raid where he and his family are gunned down by stupid law enforcement officers who had the wrong house. It would be poetic justice.
Hmm, 8:30. Okay, if they had knocked, and he’d shot through the door, I’d say fine, hang him.
But if the cops were busting in for anything less than a life-or-death emergency, like a hostage situation, then he gets the benefit of the doubt for defending his home, IMO.
It could be that he is both. What is clear, is that the officer is a victim; most likely of his superiors.
It's more of a 5th Amendment right and a common law right to defend ones castle. The 2nd Amendment gives the citizen the right to defend his 5th Amendment rights against others, INCLUDING THE GOVERNMENT.
Sounds like a job for Jerry Spense.
He killed the cop who was outside the house when they woke him up at 8:30PM?
Was this one of those no-knock warrants?
I have seen lots of rhetoric about how the police handled the situation, but I haven’t seen anything about the participation of the Judge who signed the Warrant with the specific no knock provision. Judges are supposed to insert independent, cool headed, examination of the Affidavit. They are to demand that the probable cause statements are sufficient and complete. They are to inquire if any exculpatory information exists. Before they authorize and order the execution of a no knock warrant, they are expected to rigorously examine the reasons that would justify unannounced entry. Still, something went terribly wrong and none of us were there to know the facts. We just bring our own bias to the results.
What a pointless article. All she is doing is blabbing that nobody should form an opinion on the matter until it goes to trail. Sorry woman, but we do that all the time in society.