A woman who witnessed her mentally ill father's fatal shooting by police officers—and was only narrowly missed herself—will be able to sue a Texas Ranger who later interrogated her for five hours about the incident without a warrant, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has said.
April 25, 2017 at 03:00 AM
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A woman who witnessed her mentally ill father’s fatal shooting by police officers—and was only narrowly missed herself—will be able to sue a Texas Ranger who later interrogated her for five hours about the incident without a warrant, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has said.
The background to the Fifth Circuit’s recent decision in Lincoln v. Barnes is as follows, according to the opinion:
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