10th Circuit Rejects Claim That Excessive Force In Search Caused Man’s Suicide

(February 15, 2017, 4:02 PM EST) -- DENVER — The federal government’s use of at least 22 armed agents wearing bullet-proof vests to search for illegally taken Native American artifacts at the house of a Utah doctor who killed himself the day after the search does not constitute excessive force, the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Feb. 13 (Estate of James D. Redd, M.D. v. Daniel Love, et al., No. 16-4010, 10th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 2496)....