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7:25-cv-00583
North Carolina Eastern
Civil Rights: Other
Louise Wood Flanagan
A North Carolina federal court has ruled that police officers accused of raiding the wrong house while attempting to locate a stolen car are not immune from claims that they violated the rights of the homeowner and her fiancée and illegally destroyed their property.
Officers accused of violating a family's constitutional rights by raiding their home in the middle of the night told a North Carolina federal court Tuesday that the suit should be dismissed for failing to state a claim, and that they deserved immunity since they thought a thief was on the premises.
A North Carolina federal judge has ordered a county sheriff's office to turn over the names of officers involved in a midnight raid on a home they incorrectly believed was harboring a suspected carjacker.