{"id":41782,"date":"2020-01-17T05:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T10:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41782"},"modified":"2020-01-17T05:36:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T10:36:54","slug":"41782","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41782","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Two former Houston police officers indicted after botched raid that killed two people [they lied to get no-knock]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/15\/us\/houston-police-officers-indicted-no-knock-warrant\/index.html\">Two former Houston police officers indicted after botched raid that killed two people<\/a> by Konstantin Toropin:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prosecutors said Goines lied to obtain a warrant for a &#8220;no knock&#8221; raid from a municipal judge and misrepresented the victims&#8217; drug activity, threat level and other factors. He claimed a criminal informant bought heroin from a man at the address the day before and that the man selling drugs was known to have a gun, among other things, according to Ogg.<\/p>\n<p>That meant there was no need for police to knock before entering the home, the prosecutor said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reason: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/01\/15\/grand-jury-backs-murder-charges-against-houston-cop-who-lied-to-justify-a-deadly-drug-raid\/\">Grand Jury Backs Murder Charges Against Houston Cop Who Lied to Justify a Deadly Drug Raid<\/a> by Jacob Sullum (&#8220;Additional grand juries will investigate possible wrongdoing by other narcotics officers, including the way the raid was conducted.&#8221;) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: Two former Houston police officers indicted after botched raid that killed two people by Konstantin Toropin:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41782","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=41782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41792,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41782\/revisions\/41792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}