[A man who refused to open his door to let police enter his home without a warrant should not have been convicted for obstruction of justice, the lead opinion for the Washington Supreme Court concluded on Thursday. “Criminalizing the refusal to open one’s own door to a warrantless entry would be enormously chilling and inconsistent with our deeply held constitutional values,” Justice Steven Gonzalez wrote in Shoreline v. McLemore.]
Maybe I’m reading this incorrectly but seems like a bit of common sense according to the Bill of Rights.
Am I wrong?
No … there are a lot of things that happen that are clear violations of common sense readings of the Bill of Rights.