Connor Griffith-Guerrero Wins Wrong-House Ruling

One December night, a 22-year-old Washington man named Connor Griffith-Guerrero was watching Netflix when sheriff's deputies from Spokane County surrounded his house with guns drawn. The deputies were investigating a possible burglary at another address, but after failing to find that house despite receiving the correct location, they chose Griffith-Guerrero's home based on tire tracks in its driveway. They pulled him outside at gunpoint, forced him onto his knees, and handcuffed him before his identification confirmed their mistake, after which one of the deputies told him he was lucky he had not been shot. Griffith-Guerrero sued over the unlawful search and seizure, and the U.S. District Judge largely ruled in his favor, finding the warrantless detention and use of force objectively unreasonable.

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