Tucson man’s nightmare: cops lied, cats died
A Tucson man will get a new chance to seek financial damages from the city for an illegal search of his east side home more than a decade ago.
But he won’t be able to recover the value of the dozens of cats he had that were taken by Pima County Animal Control after the raid, most of whom later died.
In a unanimous decision Monday, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a trial judge’s ruling that the police officers were entitled to qualified immunity in obtaining a search warrant of the home of Richard Brubaker.