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Thursday, October 22, 2026
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Wrong house raid

SAN ANTONIO — Fourth Amendment claims can proceed against three Bexar County Sheriff’s Office deputies, a federal court in Texas ruled in a case brought by a woman whose home was mistakenly raided. Officers had handcuffed the woman and taken her young child out of the house while they searched it. “They had the wrong house,” the judge wrote.

Read the opinion here.

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