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If it happened to me, I'd be sitting in heaven without any mean words for the officer who punched my ticket, but I'd have a bone to pick with the person who pointed him through my front door.
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LE departments are set up differently. That being said, there is always a CO in charge of the breaching unit that reviews the warrant. The rest of the team are just obeying orders. They don't review the physical warrant. In some cases, there's no one on the actual breaching team that has done any prior investigative work at the suspected house. These breaching team memebers have never seen the house before. Prior investigation is done by a different LE department....
IMO, this just isn't a good practice. The night of the raid, there should always be a person present from the investigative team that's actually been to the suspect house accompanying the breaching team to insure that the targeted house is the intended house.
It doesn't always happen that way though.....
....sooo, you can't sue or hold the team member liable.