ALBANY – State police are not entitled to qualified immunity for their roles in seizing, without a warrant, suicide notes from the home of a civilian lab technician that he had written to his wife and children before taking his life, a federal judge has decided.
Whether the actions of a deputy State Police counsel and a lieutenant violated the Fourth Amendment rights of the family of technician Garry Veeder is a question for a jury, Northern District Judge Mae D’Agostino (See Profile) decided in Veeder v. Nutting, 1:10-cv-00665.
