Source: Courthouse News Service
“A Texas man who was shot by a police officer after disarming a gunman who broke into his home is challenging a federal judge’s ruling that the officer’s actions were objectively reasonable. Jorge Martinez asked a U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel Monday to reverse the judge’s ruling and send the case back to the lower court for a trial. His attorney, David Flores, told the panel U.S. District Judge John Kazen wrongly discounted evidence Martinez had presented showing that Laredo Police Officer David Hinojosa should have been able to hear him saying he wasn’t the shooter as he exited the house holding the disarmed rifle. He pointed to testimony from Martinez’s neighbors, including one who was inside her home, that they could hear what he was shouting.” (10/06/25)