[Qualified Immunity] Case law justifies entering a house without a warrant.

 Series of indictments nearly wipes out Llano Police Department

"The cases that were indicted recently in Llano County involve complicated constitutional and legal principles that lawyers, judges and constitutional scholars cannot even agree on…When you start prosecuting police officers for official oppression based on grey or unsettled areas of law; they are not taught that law in the academy or subsequent training, or there are no policies or procedures available you are soon going to run into a situation where officers will hesitate to act - this will result in an innocent victim or Officer being seriously injured or worse." - Travis Williamson, Officer Grant Harden's Attorney"
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"Chief Ratliff guilty of all three counts against him in the Nutt case. The jury determined Ratliff omitted the facts related to Nutt's case. The chief had originally pleaded not guilty to the charges. He was then sentenced to six months in jail but the judge probated his sentence for a year so he won't have to serve any jail time.

“My attorney is working on an appeal now, so I can’t say anything just yet,” Ratliff told KXAN when contacted this week. “When it’s all said and done, I have a lot to tell. There’s case law that justifies what we did."