Posted on 05/16/2011 8:40:02 PM PDT by wrastu
You know how to drive a Brit Mark 11 FV4201 Chieftain?
Well, there might be at least one thing that they have in common....
BTW, in the other case nobody made an unlawful entry.
Puckel, a man ahead of his time, or maybe the more things change the more they remain the same.
He reserved the special “square rounds” for the Islamists.
Indeed, government is a servant and should be treated as a slave, with force. Now wonder where all these pro-slave bleeding heart stories are coming from?
Indeed, if we are not strong with our government, it will slack against enemies, foreign or domestic. Hence Zero needs a lesson, but RIno wusses still sit clueless or lazy and incompetent. We need a government proud of its master citizens, not this wishy washy insulting lib groupie talk.
I have some qualms with that argument:
More police cameras can help with some things, but a more fundamental issue is that judges and jurors are apt to have different requirements to consider something "probable cause". If a cop describes (or shows video of) action around a target dwelling which is only slightly suspicious, a judge might issue a warrant if he considers it possible that someone seeing such actions might believe a search would turn up evidence of a crime; a jury, however, might in some cases realize that the "suspicious" actions were really pretty ordinary, or that perhaps the cop who regarded them as suspicious was ignorant of some common practices.
Especially given the way prosecutors rig juries, I wouldn't want to rely upon jurors to be the only people scrutinizing evidence-gathering practices, but I think they would nonetheless in many cases pose an important check and balance. If nothing else, the fact that their conduct would be open to scrutiny by a jury would probably discourage some types of bad behavior.
I think compartmentalization should be in order. Failure to do one’s job properly should obviously lead to dismissal — possibly fines and even jail time. That can be the deterent. But evidence is evidence, and news is news.
Doesn’t it bother you that a potential juror is kicked off the tiral because she or he is too WELL informed? TOO intelligent?
And just because a deputy is in prison for breaking and entering to gather key evidence, why can’t his kamakazi act at least be considered as evidence?
You sound more knowedgeable than me about actual trials. I’m no lawyer,or do I study trials closely. So maybe I’m out of my league here. We are talking about one of the best legal systems in the world despite its flaws.
[Police who use illegitimate means to score convictions get told “don’t do that again (wink wink)”.]
If that is the case, why let judges choose who the “winners” and “losers” are? If judges block improperly gathered evidence, it simply creates an illusion of professionalism. Perhaps it is time for society to broaden its perspective. If a defense attorney is motivated to discrediting improper evidence rather than being motivated to simply have it buried, that brings juries and society closer to the truth. Let the prosecutor be the one to decide what evidence harms the case.
“If a cop describes (or shows video of) action around a target dwelling which is only slightly suspicious, a judge might issue a warrant if he considers it possible that someone seeing such actions might believe a search would turn up evidence of a crime; a jury, however, might in some cases realize that the “suspicious” actions were really pretty ordinary, or that perhaps the cop who regarded them as suspicious was ignorant of some common practices.”
That’s good too. If Barney Fife is proven to be overly zealous, I’m thrilled.
See Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103 (2006); Police cannot conduct a warrantless search in a home where one occupant consents and the other objects.
and
Indiana Code, IC 35-44-1-2
Official misconduct
Sec. 2. A public servant who:
(1) knowingly or intentionally performs an act that the public servant is forbidden by law to perform;
(2) performs an act the public servant is not authorized by law to perform, with intent to obtain any property for himself or herself;
(3) knowingly or intentionally solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept from an appointee or employee any property other than what the public servant is authorized by law to accept as a condition of continued employment;
(4) knowingly or intentionally acquires or divests himself or herself of a pecuniary interest in any property, transaction, or enterprise or aids another person to do so based on information obtained by virtue of the public servant's office that official action that has not been made public is contemplated;
(5) knowingly or intentionally fails to deliver public records and property in the public servant's custody to the public servant's successor in office when that successor qualifies; or
(6) knowingly or intentionally violates IC 36-6-4-17(b);
commits official misconduct, a Class D felony. As added by Acts 1976, P.L.148, SEC.4. Amended by Acts 1977, P.L.340, SEC.54; Acts 1980, P.L.73, SEC.2; P.L.34-1992, SEC.2;
P.L.222-2005, SEC.48.
You're going to love learning how to do neutral steers with a cross-drive transmission.
In Randolph the guy lived there. The woman had clearly moved out and had, in fact, GONE TO CANADA.
If you want to apply this case to the situation in Indiana note that the woman lived there and the guy had got his stuff and moved out!
The USSC ruled in favor of the occupant who lived there ALONE ~ as would they rule in favor of the woman in this case because she lived there ALONE.
we made the optical display used in almost every American vehicle with an optical fire control system and some foreign stuff too
we also made all the video display systems in all US aircraft and ships till we were obsoleted by flat panel displays
and they also make the in-core, trans-core and ex-core sensors and controls for all US ships with nuclear reactors
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