Supreme Court Won’t Rehear Police Brutality Case

Justice Sonia Sotomayor warns that throwing out such cases on legal technicalities ‘produces unfair and inefficient results.’
Supreme Court Won’t Rehear Police Brutality Case
“Equal Justice Under Law” engraving above entrance to U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 3, 2016. Bob Korn/Shutterstock
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
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The Supreme Court has decided not to hear the appeal of a former Michigan college student who sued police officers for beating him after mistaking him for a criminal suspect.

The decision to deny the petition for certiorari, or review, in the qualified immunity case of King v. Brownback (court file 22-912) came in an unsigned order on Oct. 30. The petition was filed with the court on March 17 this year.