The Supreme Court said Wednesday that California police officers cannot
be sued because they used a warrant that may have been defective to
search a woman's house.
The high court threw out the lawsuit against Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Detective Curt Messerschmidt and other police officials, who
were being sued personally by Augusta Millender for the search on her
house and confiscation of her shotgun.
Police were looking for her foster son, Jerry Ray Bowen, who had
recently shot at his ex-girlfriend with a black sawed-off shotgun. She
told police that he may be at his foster mother's house, so
Messerschmidt got a warrant to look for any weapons on the property and
gang-related material, since Bowen was supposed to be a member of the
Mona Park Crips and the Dodge Park Crips. The detective had his
supervisors approve the warrant before submitting to the district
attorney and a judge, who also approved the warrant.
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