A jury verdict in favor of a New York State Police Trooper in a civil rights lawsuit alleging excessive force has been vacated by a federal appeals court, which ordered a new trial over the shooting death of a Long Island man during a search for drugs in his home in 2002.
The 2-1 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upset the 2011 verdict of an Eastern District jury that found for Trooper Daniel Brown at a trial over the killing of John Rasanen, a shooting that Brown testified occurred only when he felt Rasanen was grabbing for, or trying to turn around, the trooper's gun.
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