The court of appeals affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court judgment and remanded. The court held that a family subjected to a nighttime SWAT team search of their home offered evidence that a police officer was more than “merely negligent” where he omitted from the search warrant affidavit the material fact that the warrant’s subject had been incarcerated for over six months.
In April 2006, a boy inside a home in Santa Maria, California, was injured during a drive-by shooting. Witnesses identified a number of people, including Javier Bravo, as alleged gang members who might be involved in the shooting.
