New Hampshire no longer allows this type of warrant to be served.  After the loss of Greenland, NH Chief Michael Maloney when a local drug task force attempted to conduct such a no-knock warrant, the state decided that they are just too dangerous to continue...

I am not any fan of no knock search warrants, but I could see the necessity  if the perpetrator was suspected  making poison, and planning to put it in a water supply, or was suspected of having nuclear waist and making a dirty bomb, or something of that magnitude, but for a judge to authorize a bloody no knock warrant over bloody pot plants in outrageous!! This judge should be impeached, held accountable, and have charges brought against him...This depute  died an unnecessary death. 

Aside from the BS No knock Warrant. How does a convicted FELON Legally own firearms ? I am an avid supporter of the second amendment. He lost that right when he committed a felony and got caught. I know a few felons and they are not even allowed to knowingly be near firearms. The reason these type of warrants exist is that many officers have been shot through the doors they were waiting at after announcing themselves as officers with a warrant. 

I do NOT support the war on drugs as drugs are an addiction NOT a crime. #2 I do NOT support no-knock raids for any reason. The home owner should is completely justified and all charges should be dropped. I fully support the home owner. No-Knock raids are a pure example of what a police state looks like.

Henry Goedrich Magee, 28, who has now been charged with capital murder. But Magee's attorney, famed Houston defense lawyer Dick DeGuerin, said Magee and his pregnant girlfriend were sleeping in the home when they heard "explosives" going off and loud pounding at the door. Moments later, the door burst open and a person Magee couldn't identify entered the residence. Magee grabbed a rifle leaning against his bedroom door frame and shot Sowders. According to DeGuerin, Magee shot him because he "believed the man rushing in was an intruder and he needed to defend himself."<- Makes sense, don't you think? People remember why we have a second amendment, this is why. No-Knock raids = Pre-1776. All charges should be dropped. the no-knock warrant as a contributing factor in Sowder's death.

Oh yea, let us not foreget "early last Thursday morning", probably between the hours of 2AM and 6AM?

i really love reading out loud all of your comments. i do think the judge should be held accountable(we'll all be admitted for radiation poisoning from the fukashima plant before that happens) leo's are the street thugs doing what is told of them by there high ranking counter parts. two months ago i was charged with careless driving and i should have recorded the incident because the leo's who pulled my over were going to let me drive away, until there sgt who ive had bad encounters with when i was younger pulled up. 30 sec later im being charged with careless driving. they didnt see me driving careless there was a vehicle that fit my description in the that area of town i happen to drive through. moral of my story is this is a system that we all trust. a system our mayor or town meeting decide to fund. people who have minimal experience and think if they start waving a warrent or ticket book around makes it all justifiable and cozy. i will be the judge of my own wrong doing and the next time i get put into a situation and being detained for being innocent i'm going to be the one crying wolf. or yelling "im being kidnapped". i live in a small town in western nebraska, leo's here falsify there actions all the time because more then most dont know the law. Morgan Robertson. "if you cant be safe, be deadly"

No knock warrants have become a license to kill. When the tables are turned on the killers they whine bitch and moan because they got their butt shot.

It's time we all stood up and stopped this insanity before we all become a target.

While we start a chip in for the defense fund of this person there gun it needed because the states can go after them with every resource it has to protect is little jolly moneymaking venture called the drug war.

Totally justified - self defense of life/property.  May this be a lesson to law enforcement's ways of thinking.   These actions aren't totally worthless, we can use them and their errant ways as a bad example.

THIS POLICY is one of many reasons these days that America has SUCH a bad reputation the world over.

Most people out of the US now despair. It had such a good reputation years ago, now it is looked upon as almost as bad as the nazis. (Its Foreign policies and gun policies also contribute to this)

Get a grip guys.

Don't you understand how this looks to everyone?

And all over a little bit of weed.

Shame on you.

My sister-in-law reported this happening to a farm across the road from  her in CA. She raises lavender. The farm across the road from her had a license to grow medical marijuana. They were raided by fake cops who robbed them and seized their stuff. The real cops don't have any information about who did it. We guess it was a cartel. 

This is what happens when the 2A meets the war on drugs.

One man had to die to find a plant that grows naturally all around God's green earth.  Next up corn mandated in our gas tanks.

They may be in those new military tanks, they may spot you first with drones, they will have night vision goggles, they will have high powered rifles, they're said to serve and protect. 

This is a war on people, a war on American citizens on American soil.

Is there any mystery regarding why government wants to confiscate all private guns? If that is done then the LEO thugs can break into homes with impunity. It has happened many times before in history and now it's happening here. Stand your ground.

So, this time one LEO is dead. Many other times innocent civilians die. Wrong address, no evidence, false premises for the warrant.
If this insanity does not stop, cops will begin to get shot for just being cops.... which would be a grave tragedy. BUT.. their overall conduct is setting them up to be the bad guys, rather than the good guys. WHY a no knock warrant? They thought there were guns there. They foind out they were right. The hard way. No warning, no dea WHO was busting down the door..... cause they wanted the element of surprise. They got it, alright. Surprised. Just like José Guereña was. Only this time the lead flew the other way.

WHEN will they get it? Is a possible surprise advantage worth the life of one officer? 'd say not. SO WHAT if he's got some pot? What harm is THAT? Guns? Most folks own them Nothing illegal there, either. Get it figured out, or there will be a whole lot more innocents shot in these raids.

if he was high he wouldnt of reacted as quickly and therefore the officer would still be alive..see its guys like that who give weed a bad name..

Police have financial incentives to target low-level drug offenders. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/dec/24/texas_deputy_killed_dawn_noknock

http://www.drugpolicy.org/distorted-financial-incentives-enforcement

Has anybody thought that the Government is in business with the cartels?  More money in drugs than oil.  If the Government really wanted to win the war on drugs they could do it easily in a few weeks with the assets we own.  Wars are about money, not righteousness.

Even though it was a shameful loss, He choose to enter the residence with no warrant,their mistake...A little more training he would have taken a few more...this day and age the law is getting to cocky specially over a few plants,there will always be that one that is going to get killed just the nature of cat and mouse game the local policing force likes to play...they should knock that way it cost the criminal more money when he tries to get rid of it...Your house is off limits to all who try to forcefully enter...surely if I was to break the law they better knock first, my knowledge is far from amateur,One day they are going to force their selves into someones house and loose more life than just one...This is not the movies they do not always win...they should have had better leadership to avoid loss of life,I do not like criminal activity but this is a good case of what can happen when you enter a residence with unprepared law enforcement and poor training...in reality they should have waited a little longer to until the man suspected of criminal activity left the residence and then confronted him with the search warrant that way this officer would have not lost his life and possible the lives of others,his superiors should be put on trial for the endangerment of his and others lives that were there during the raid...with no warrant in hand.....

Go to: dirtyunclesam.com to see why they can do this and marcstevens.net and fija.org and flexyourrights.org

NULLIFY! fija.org

So the cops busted in , in the middle of the night , gussied up in gear , armed to the teeth , dicks hard as a rock.............I bet the cops were not 'lookin' fer love'.  They was lookin to hurt somebody real bad 'cause almost every time you enter someone's house at 2 am somebody is gonna get hurt real bad if the home owner has access to a gun with which to defend himself. This time , for a change it was the cops , even with their 10-1 manpower advantage and the superiority of their weapon power.

Let's go back in time 24 hours and ask Sgt Sowders if he wants to :

1. Let's kick in this assholes door at 2 am and arrest him

or

2. Let's wait 'til this asshole goes to the convenience store for coffee tomorrow and 3 of us in plain clothes jump him and wrestle him to the ground while back up arrives 60 seconds later.

Sgt. Sowders .....Do you vote for #1 or #2 ?

I bet there would be a huge difference in the way Sgt. Sowders views serving arrest and search warrants in retrospect.

All Cops know of at least one person in their family that uses " Illegal drugs " . Who are the targets of this no-knock warrant garbage ? Pick and choose to meet the budget . Reckless conduct is not always good .

The problem here is that the police really found nothing so the question is, how did they justify the warrant?  The police need to better screen the tips they are getting before they apply for a warrant.  This could have been one bad guy using the police to go after another bad guy.

In a case like this the proper way to execute a search warrant is to wait for the homeowner to go to work or come home from work and make a traffic stop. If leos fear that the driver is armed they can execute a felony stop and there would be little chance that anyone would be shot. Then get the house key from the driver, after finding out if anyone else is in the house, women, pregnant women, children even pitbulls. Then go to the house, even bring the homeowner with you announcing to the occupants that you are coming in. Most grow house warrants are done this way, it's safer for everyone and the swat team isn't necessarily needed. 

Why judges and state attorney's allow this kind of raid is beyond me, when much safer means are available. 

No one should die for marijuana.

End the drug war.

What kind of logic says, that when guns are suspected to be present in a home, its a good idea to bust into said home, unannounced, at 3 AM with guns drawn? 

No knock warrants were approved by courts back in the cocaine days, so suspects couldn't destroy evidence.

Why a no knock warrant, did they think he could flush an entire marijuana grow down the toilet. Even if they did, we would have the water department shut off the water at night, and wait for them to call.

In the West, he only thing breaking into someone's home at 4 AM, wearing a mask, and yelling will get you, is shot.

2 words: 'no-knock'.  the end.  it's that simple.  when you rush a house, at night, you may get shot.  bad policies by stupid people get other people killed.  4 pot plants and 4 legal guns and a guy had to die because of 'no-knock'.  this man should not be tried at all.  he protected his home from what he only knew to be an intruder.  someone else's stupidity should ruin this guys life?  i don't think so.

That cop got everything he deserved. The rest of the gang should have gotten the same. Charging the homeowner is absurd, they play their little cops n robbers game and lost, too bad. This is still America god damn it, if you don't want to get shot, don't do stupid things. The drug war is treason, since declaring war on an inanimate object is insanity, it must be a war on the citizens who disagree with the insane law.