# Yet another SWAT raid death and no charges filed

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 20, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-swat-raid-death-and-no-charges-filed/568278 "2011-01-20T02:57:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-swat-raid-death-and-no-charges-filed/568278/375 "2011-02-10T14:16:34Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Doesn’t this vaguely suggest that criminal law has a flaw that should be corrected?

No. The long-standing principle of criminal law is that ordinary mistakes are not criminal.

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