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Who needs a warrant?

Tucker6900

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So instead of telling the police to stop breaking the law, they are telling us to give up our rights? Thats messed up.
 

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Taken from the article:

The court's decision stemmed from a Vanderburgh County case in which a man yelled at police and blocked them from entering his apartment to investigate a domestic disturbance. The man shoved a police officer who entered anyway and was shocked with a stun gun and arrested.
Valparaiso University School of Law professor Ivan Bodensteiner told The Times that the court's decision is consistent with the idea of preventing violence.

The 4th Amendment uses the verbage "unreasonable search and seizures"
Let's see, lets make the police go get a search warrant before entering a home to investigate a 911 call of domestic violence....an hour later at best, search warrant arrives and the police find the woman victim bled out. Hypothetical scenario sure but not unrealistic. It is no different than if your mom calls 911 saying she has breathing problems, police and fire arrive and no one answers the door....wait, they can't force entry because they have to get a warrant first.
 
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PDinDetroit

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Taken from the article:

The court's decision stemmed from a Vanderburgh County case in which a man yelled at police and blocked them from entering his apartment to investigate a domestic disturbance. The man shoved a police officer who entered anyway and was shocked with a stun gun and arrested.
Valparaiso University School of Law professor Ivan Bodensteiner told The Times that the court's decision is consistent with the idea of preventing violence.

The 4th Amendment uses the verbage "unreasonable search and seizures"
Let's see, lets make the police go get a search warrant before entering a home to investigate a 911 call of domestic violence....an hour later at best, search warrant arrives and the police find the woman victim bled out. Hypothetical scenario sure but not unrealistic. It is no different than if your mom calls 911 saying she has breathing problems, police and fire arrive and no one answers the door....wait, they can't force entry because they have to get a warrant first.

Exigent Circumstances Clause already covers this - you should know that.

The ruling says "no resistance is legal" and goes against many previous court decisions.

The Indiana Supreme Court made a very broad brush ruling here, couple it with the earlier ruling the same week that an Officer can effect a "no-knock" warrant without prior Court Approval.
 

PDinDetroit

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More Fuel For The Fire!

According to Newton County Sheriff, Don Hartman Sr., random house to house searches are now possible and could be helpful following the Barnes v. STATE of INDIANA Supreme Court ruling issued on May 12th, 2011. When asked three separate times due to the astounding callousness as it relates to trampling the inherent natural rights of Americans, he emphatically indicated that he would use random house to house checks, adding he felt people will welcome random searches if it means capturing a criminal.

http://smargus.com/indiana-sheriff-if-we-need-to-conduct-random-house-to-house-searches-we-will/

Yeah, like we didn't see this coming after the rulings...
 
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