{"id":13505,"date":"2014-10-01T12:17:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13505"},"modified":"2014-10-01T12:17:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:17:29","slug":"wapo-jury-awards-1-8-million-to-wrongly-raided-denver-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13505","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Jury awards $1.8 million to wrongly raided Denver family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/09\/30\/jury-awards-1-8-million-to-wrongly-raided-denver-family\/\">Jury awards $1.8 million to wrongly raided Denver family<\/a> by Radley Balko:<br \/>\nNot for the mistaken raid, but for decision to prosecute family members afterward: two kids for assaulting an officer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Denver officials had simply left it at that, it\u2019s unlikely that the Martinez family would have received any compensation at all. The jury in the family\u2019s civil case didn\u2019t find the raid itself to be abuse. It was the decision to prosecute the boys that was apparently too much. But the family won\u2019t be collecting any time soon. The state plans to appeal. But at best, once again, the party that will be punished for the abuse of innocent people by police and prosecutors won\u2019t be the police and prosecutors who committed the abuse, but Denver (and probably Colorado) taxpayers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Jury awards $1.8 million to wrongly raided Denver family by Radley Balko: Not for the mistaken raid, but for decision to prosecute family members afterward: two kids for assaulting an officer. If Denver officials had simply left it at &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13505\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13506,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13505\/revisions\/13506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}