No right to resist unlawful police entry.

An Indiana court has just ruled 3 to 2 that people do not have the right to resist police entry, even if they have not got a warrant.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-ind-court-no-right-to-resist-unlawful-police-entry-20110513,0,2225708.story

The ruling stems from a case wherein the police were called to respond to a married couple arguing outside of their apartment. When they arrived, the couple returned inside and the husband stood in the threshold of the door and told the officers they were not needed.

When they attempted to enter anyway, he pushed one of the officers, who responded with a stun gun and handcuffs.

In the end, even though there was no warrant, and even though the cops didn't have a reason to enter (They had stopped fighting and returned home), it was allowed.

The entire point of a warrant is so that law enforcement officers, when they wish to enter a home, must go to an impartial judge and persuade them that their reason to want to enter is legitimate. Now, the judge doesn't necessarily enter into it. All the cops need to say is that they smelled or heard something.

Comments

  • DaktologistDaktologist Global Moderator
    edited May 2011
    What the fuck sort of law is that?
  • DaGuruDaGuru Mite
    edited May 2011
    This shouldn't come to any surprise to anyone......as a couple decades worth of the drug wars have been trampling on people's rights in regard to searches and seizures....we've just reached a new landmark. :(

    Add to the fact they have romanticized the storm-trooper tactics as if its "good" or even "cool"....when they put shows on the air like Cops, this kind of thing doesn't even register on the average citizens radar as being bad.

    Its only gonna get worse folks, harder times are upon us. I would say I'm hopeful that hundreds if not thousands of Ruby Ridges type scenaros take place things might finally change for the better....but with this populace it really is a numbers game. The government knows the majority of folks are quite soft and as savy as sheep, and they bank on that fact every day. :thumbsdown:
  • MasturbatronMasturbatron Regular
    edited May 2011
    This is in Indiana, not Illinois.
  • edited May 2011
    This is in Indiana, not Illinois.

    Thanks, Fixed.
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