Legal Opinion
Robert E. Redington v. State of Indiana
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided April 5, 2019No. Court of Appeals Case 18A-CR-950PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Robb, Judge.
Case Summary and Issue
[1] In 2004, Indianapolis Police Department officer Jake Laird was shot and killed in the line of duty. The man who shot him had been temporarily committed for a mental health evaluation several *1054 months earlier and his cache of weapons was confiscated at that time. When the man was released from the hospital and requested the return of his weapons, IPD returned the firearms because they had no legal authority to retain them. Five months later, Officer Laird was killed. In response to the shooting, Indiana became the second state in the nation to enact a "red…
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