redstate.com By Jeff CharlesÂ
The Fifth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the plaintiff in a lawsuit against local law enforcement for violating his First Amendment rights. If this person is victorious, it will be a significant victory for liberty while sending a message to police officers who believe they are above the Constitution.
The court took only eight hours to issue its ruling on Wednesday allowing the lawsuit to move forward:
The civil case surrounded Rogersâ 2019 arrest for criminal defamation after he criticized members of the STPSO as âcluelessâ following failure to solve Nanette Krentelâs murder investigation.
Rogers won a lawsuit for false arrest and imprisonment in 2022. But Sheriff Smith and his deputies appealed the decision to the Fifth Circuit.
Three judges ruled that federal judge Jane Triche Milazzo of the Eastern District of Louisiana was justified ruling in favor of Rogers last year.
The situation began in 2019 when Jerry Rogers Jr., a former federal agent, criticized officials working in the St. Tammany Parish Sheriffâs Office (STPSO), referring to them as âclueless.â The criticism was related to the officeâs handling of the 2017 murder of a woman named Nanette Krentel, who was shot and left in her house as the alleged assailant burned it down…
