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Texas Wants to Execute Man Who Killed Home Intruder Who Turned Out to Be SWAT Member

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Shouldn't the law be the same to all?.

Attempting to serve a search warrant byentering a house through a window got Killeen, Texas, Police Detective Charles Dinwiddie shot in the face and killed last May. It was yet another SWAT raid organized for a purpose other than the reason they were invented.

The police had a search warrant looking for narcotics at the home of Marvin Louis Guy, 49. They decided to serve this warrant at 5:30 in the morning and without knocking on his door. He opened fire on them, killing Dinwiddie and injuring three others.


Though they found a glass pipe, a grinder, and a pistol, they did not find any drugs. Former Reason Editor Radley Balko of the deadly raid in May at The Washington Post. A police informant apparently told them there were bags of cocaine inside the house, which sounds a lot like another familiar drug raid in Virginia that got an officer killed.

The Virginia case ended with Ryan Frederick in prison for 10 years despite his insistence he thought he was defending himself against in home intruders. He may end up lucky compared to Guy. Prosecutors in Texas are going to seek the death penalty against him. KWTX offers a dreadfully written that says next to nothing about the circumstances of the raid but gives Dinwiddie’s whole life story.

Guy faces three additional charges of attempted capital murder for shooting the other officers. The story mentions the no-knock raid but fails to explain why it happened or the failure to find any drugs.


A search for Guy in the for Bell County, Texas, shows that he is being charged only for the shootings. There are no drug-related charges listed. He is being held on a bond totaling $4.5 million.

https://reason.com/blog/2014/09/17/texas-wants-to-execute-man-who-killed-ho
 
If someone is crawling through my window. I would shoot a warning shot, robber knows I am armed so he would take off.

Shooting him directly without a warning shot is just irresponsible imho.
 
I think his story deserves careful scrutiny. Did he really believe it was a home invader, or did he know they were cops?
At what point did he realize they were cops? Did he put up resistance after that point?

Maybe I'm pre-conditioned by media stereotypes, but when the police execute a search warrant like this.. aren't they usually yelling out "POLICE!! SEARCH WARRANT!!" when they bust into the place?
 
I think his story deserves careful scrutiny. Did he really believe it was a home invader, or did he know they were cops?
At what point did he realize they were cops? Did he put up resistance after that point?

Maybe I'm pre-conditioned by media stereotypes, but when the police execute a search warrant like this.. aren't they usually yelling out "POLICE!! SEARCH WARRANT!!" when they bust into the place?

Does it really matter. He is doing 10 years, now they want to fry him.


Why?.
 
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