Posted on 12/05/2011 9:15:59 PM PST by Rabin
Police officers in Los Angeles stormed Augusta Millender’s home early one morning in 2003. They were looking for Ms. Millender’s foster son, Jerry Bowen, and for a shotgun he had used in a domestic assault. They found neither. But they did seize a gun owned by Ms. Millender, who was 73. The gun was legal, and she said she kept it for self-defense.
Scalia, “If he’s so stupid that he executes a warrant that no reasonable officer could think was correct,” the justice said of a hypothetical officer, “he’s in the pot, right?”
Both the National Rifle Association and the American Civil Liberties Union filed briefs supporting her position.
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Rab
I really hope that they get to sue the heck out of these idiotic cops. Hopefully that will put some cap on all these violations of our rights.
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