Judge: Albuquerque PD must pay up in officer-involved shooting
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Albuquerque Police Department could owe more than $130,000 to a law firm for intentionally withholding documents regarding an officer-involved shooting of a 19-year-old woman during an auto-theft investigation.
District Judge Nancy Franchini on Wednesday said the department owes damages and attorneys fees, and must produce the withheld documents in connection with the Inspection of Public Records Act violations it’s perpetrated since late September 2016.
The exact amount due will be decided in the next month or so, but attorney Shannon Kennedy, representing the family of Mary Hawkes, set her preliminary attorney fees at $103,091 and the state law allows a $100 per day fine as punishment for government agencies that break the IPRA law, which Franchini’s ruling establishes.
Hawkes was killed in April 2014 by then-APD officer Jeremy Dear, who shot her during a foot chase near Wyoming and Zuni in southeast Albuquerque. Hawkes was a suspected car thief and police said she pointed a gun at Dear.
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