Former Deputy Scott Peterson

[NHT3]

He is guilty of being a Chickens*** POS and has to live with the sound of gunfire knowing kids were dying the rest of his life but I seriously doubt that he has a conscience.

 

[KLB]

Easy to google if you are tech savy…

Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone (Published 2005)

Supreme Court rules that police do not have constitutional duty to protect person from harm, even woman who obtained court-issued protective order against violent husband which made arrest mandatory for violation; decision overturns ruling by federal appeals court in Colorado; it had permitted...

www.nytimes.com

That is all about having a duty to respond to a call, which is a totally different thing.

The problem here was the lack of a law that addressed his lack of action. They tried to stretch an existing law to cover it and the jury apparently didn't buy it.

 

[actaeon277]

I don’t like the outcome either, but based on SCOTUS, as reprehensible as he is, he did nothing illegal.

Fraud.

Paid for a service.
Service not performed, or even attempted.

An unsuccessful attempt would have at least showed a 'good faith effort"

 

[Shadow01]

That is all about having a duty to respond to a call, which is a totally different thing.

The problem here was the lack of a law that addressed his lack of action. They tried to stretch an existing law to cover it and the jury apparently didn't buy it.

As stated by another poster, there are about 19 cases that continue to state “no duty to protect”. Keep grasping. I think the man is reprehensible, but he didn’t break the law.

 

[KLB]

As stated by another poster, there are about 19 cases that continue to state “no duty to protect”. Keep grasping. I think the man is reprehensible, but he didn’t break the law.

I'm not grasping. We've discussed this topic before, and the cases do not say what you are insinuating.