- Understand how to prosecute and defend a civil rights action involving law enforcement officers
- Know types of damages that can be pursued in a civil rights action
- Be prepared to depose and cross-examine medical experts and law enforcement officers
- Identify whether qualified immunity applies in circumstances similar to this case’s facts
- Civil & criminal litigators
- Personal injury litigators
- Tort lawyers
- Insurance law practitioners
- Government/municipal lawyers
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- Whether a police officer violated the Plaintiff’s civil rights by knowingly and recklessly disregarding the truth in an affidavit used to obtain a search warrant
- Whether the Plaintiff’s injuries were reasonable and foreseeable by the police officer at the time he made the false and misleading statements
A city police officer allegedly used an affidavit containing false information to obtain a no-knock search warrant on a Manteco resident’s (the Plaintiff's) home. Awakened by the unannounced forcible entry, the Plaintiff brandished a gun during execution of the search warrant and was subsequently shot multiple times by police officers.
The parties are disputing whether the police officer violated the Plaintiff’s civil rights by knowingly and recklessly disregarding the truth in the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant and whether the Plaintiff’s injuries were reasonable and foreseeable by the police officer at the time he made the false and misleading statements. The jury will be asked to determine liability.