Bell County, Texas, District Attorney Henry Garza has announced that he will seek the death penalty against Marvin Louis Guy, who shot and killed a police officer during an early morning, no-knock drug raid on his home last May. The police found no drugs in Guy’s house, although they say they did find drug paraphernalia. As I noted in May, it seems far more likely that Guy thought the police were criminal intruders than police. Even if he was in fact a drug dealer, it’s hard to see why a guy with no drug supply in his home would knowingly take on a raiding police team. When compared with some of the cases above, the case also illustrates that the criminal justice system is far more willing to forgive law enforcement errors during these raids than errors made by citizens, even though the police are the ones who insist on employing such volatile tactics. The case is also an interesting contrast to the case of Henry Magee, also in Texas. As I wrote in February , late last year a Burelson County Grand Jury declined to indict Magee for killing a police officer during a drug raid on his home. Unlike with Guy, the police actually did find marijuana in Magee’s home. Guy is black. Magee is white. Make of that what you will.