The shooting of a dog during the execution of a no-knock narcotics search warrant by police was not an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment, a federal appeals court held on March 12.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said there was evidence from which a reasonable jury could conclude that a deputy sheriff did not violate the civil rights of Sherry Carroll by killing her 10- and 12-year-old sons’ dog, despite Carroll’s claim that police should have planned to encounter the dog when they broke down her front door.
