On January 28, 2021 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Kathleen Mancini in the case of Mancini v. City of Tacoma. Ever wonder what a case looks like just before it goes to trial? This is me with the file the night before trial began in Mancini v. Tacoma. It's a case I handled and took all the way to the Washington Supreme Court. In January 2011 Kathleen Mancini was asleep in her bed when Tacoma police SWAT team took a battering ram to her front door. They had a warrant for her apartment but the drug dealer the cops were seeking lived in the adjacent building.
The case went up twice on appeal and to a jury which awarded Ms. Mancini $250,000 after a two week trial. Eventually I took it to the Supreme Court because there was no specific law to stop this kind of conduct which is known as "hitting the wrong door." Now there is such a law and it's called Negligent Execution of a Warrant. Kathleen Mancini finally received justice and as a result of our efforts other people who are the victim of similar misconduct will have a law to protect them and seek redress. We paved the way to hold police accountable for "hitting the wrong door."
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