Desmond Green, wrongfully detained for two years on a false capital murder charge, is homeless, jobless, and suffering health issues without insurance, and has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the doctrine of qualified immunity, which a U.S. District Judge has allowed to proceed to potentially force the Supreme Court to address. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
For more than a half-century, the qualified immunity doctrine has barred many from suing law enforcement officers who were guilty of bad acts. Could a decision by a federal judge in Mississippi help bring that doctrine to an end?
