BREAKING NEWS: SCOTUS Rejects Evansville SWAT Raid Appeal

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BREAKING NEWS: SCOTUS Rejects Evansville SWAT Raid Appeal
by Dave Stafford the indianalawer.com

A 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the city of Evansville for a bungled SWAT raid will stand.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear this appeal on Monday.

Justices denied certiorari in Billy Bolin, et al. v. Louise Milan, 15-566, and in Kevin C. Isom v. Indiana, 15-533, after conferencing on the petitions Feb. 19.

Louise Milan sued Billy Bolin, the Evansville chief of police, the city and others after a SWAT team sent a phalanx of armored, flash-bang tossing officers smashing through her open, glass front door, after which no arrests were made. Officers were looking for the source of Internet police threats, but the 7th Circuit ruled in a scathing August opinion that Evansville was not shielded from an excessive force lawsuit, calling the lack of investigation and evidence before the raid of Milan’s home “a failure of responsible police practice.” After the raid on Milan’s home, a suspect a few doors down was asked to come to the police station the next day, where he was arrested.

Evansville’s petition asked justices to review whether the 7th Circuit erred in denying qualified immunity to police by finding use of flash-bang grenades unreasonable. The city argued police were executing a warrant “to prevent a potential mass murder,” and that the use of flash-bangs “was necessary for their safety.”

This is a developing story and we shall update soon as we receive additional information.

 

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9 COMMENTS

  1. No shock here. SCOTUS only hears about 1% of the cases appealed to it. This was a stall tactic to keep it out of the public eye during the City election, and the only people it cost are the taxpayers. Winnecke was willing to spend our money to his advantage. Pat Shoulders didn’t do the work “pro bono” and I wonder if anybody knows what the filing fees are for SCOTUS.
    It’s time to pay Mrs. Milan and move forward.

    • We the people of Evansville need to be ashamed that our EPD has been humiliated nationally by the Seventh Circuit in their characterization of our devoted police officers as the “Keystone Kops” And to think that this Administration would spend our tax dollars on such nonsense is beside me. This is amateur hour kind of BS.

  3. I put a comment on a C&P thread way back when that said whoever authorized this raid should be in jail.

    I live in the middle of nowhere. Certainly not Evansville, not even Vanderburgh County. I try not to get involved in Evansville local politics and do not vote in any CCO polls because I consider it to be unfair for me to do so.

    I may see local law enforcement once every 3 months where I live, more or less, but after I put that comment on C&P, I saw an Evansville city police car pass my house with a black headed spindly looking cop checking my pad out about a week afterwards.

    Saw him twice. Have no idea how many times he saw me, BUT, I made sure I let the proper people know if funny things happened out here in the middle of nowhere, to at least check on the oddity of an Evansville cop wasting his gas in the middle of nowhere.

    This dude in the picture above has got to be one of the most pitiful cops in America.

    Congratulations Evansville, thank God I don’t live there….

    • Yep. They like to intimidate people who call out their corruption and incompetence.

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