A judge has dismissed a criminal case against two federal task force officers who had been charged with murderin a 2016 fatal shootout during an attempted arrest.
U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert last week granted motions from Eric Heinze and Kristopher Hutchens to throw out the charges against them nearly five years after the officers were indicted.The judge ruled the pair were immune from state prosecution because they were acting within their federal duties when the shooting that killed Jamarion Robinson happened, according to a written opinion.
At the time of the incident, Heinze and Hutchens were members of the U.S. Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force. Robinson, 26, was shot multiple times as they attempted to arrest him on Aug. 5, 2016, at an East Point apartment, officials said…