Dreamer
Regular Member
What is REALLY disturbing about this ruling is not so much the ruling itself, but the MASSIVE body of MD 4th Circuit case precedent that was quoted to support this ruling...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4183/is_20080707/ai_n27903218/pg_3/
Apparently, in the MD 4th Circuit, there is a long history of "oopsies" where LEOs "accidentally" shoot "suspects" and get off scott free. Shooting the wrong person, hitting an innocent bystander, using a firearm instead of a tazer, etc, etc, etc. And the 4th Circuit seems to let them off, without ANY sanction, reprimand, or punishment every time.
The "take away lesson" in this case is, if you are doing something illegal, or you are even standing NEAR someone who is doing something illegal, or even questionable, and you DON'T want to get "accidentally" shot, you'd best not do it in the 4th Circuit of MD, because there is a MOUNTAIN of case precedent that the LEA's know about which will pretty much excuse, brush off, and otherwise give a pass to any LEO who "accidentally" shoots someone, for any reason, in any situation...
Yeah, the REAL travesty here is the historic judgment of the Court in these types of shootings, and how they have essentially established a "pass card" for MD LEOs who injure, maim, or even kill people through negligent use of their firearms.
Two sets of law create two classes of people. And in MD, the the two class system of "the Rulers" and "the ruled" has decades of legal case precedent. They might as well just make a statute officially declaring MD a Serfdom, because at least in the eyes of the Courts, that is the FACT of the matter under Common Law.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4183/is_20080707/ai_n27903218/pg_3/
Apparently, in the MD 4th Circuit, there is a long history of "oopsies" where LEOs "accidentally" shoot "suspects" and get off scott free. Shooting the wrong person, hitting an innocent bystander, using a firearm instead of a tazer, etc, etc, etc. And the 4th Circuit seems to let them off, without ANY sanction, reprimand, or punishment every time.
The "take away lesson" in this case is, if you are doing something illegal, or you are even standing NEAR someone who is doing something illegal, or even questionable, and you DON'T want to get "accidentally" shot, you'd best not do it in the 4th Circuit of MD, because there is a MOUNTAIN of case precedent that the LEA's know about which will pretty much excuse, brush off, and otherwise give a pass to any LEO who "accidentally" shoots someone, for any reason, in any situation...
Yeah, the REAL travesty here is the historic judgment of the Court in these types of shootings, and how they have essentially established a "pass card" for MD LEOs who injure, maim, or even kill people through negligent use of their firearms.
Two sets of law create two classes of people. And in MD, the the two class system of "the Rulers" and "the ruled" has decades of legal case precedent. They might as well just make a statute officially declaring MD a Serfdom, because at least in the eyes of the Courts, that is the FACT of the matter under Common Law.
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