Yes, sir. I think it was a horrible decision and unlikely to get to the U.S. Supreme Court. It takes very few of the cases it is asked to take and just asking costs time and money. If the Indiana Legislature is interested, it could far more quickly pass a law countering the practical effects of the decision of the Indiana Supreme Court: The right reasonably to resist unlawful entry by, and other unlawful actions of, law enforcement authorities shall not be infringed.
I also wrote
this follow up, dealing with the Pima County, Arizona SWAT raid with its "hail" of gunfire from the SWAT folks resulting in a 26 year old former Marine dead with sixty SWAT slugs in his body.
Today I wrote
this article about some relevant police activity in Philadelphia.
The three instances seem to be in some way related: lack of respect for constitutional rights, state laws and human dignity.
Obviously, there are circumstances where police need to yell, cuss and get the upper hand. The Pima County and Philadelphia situations do not seem to be among them.
Fascinating and good job on pulling this together. 60 slugs in a Marine trying to protect his family (and he had the safety on)?! I guess in Indiana, his wife could protest in court, try to sue, but the ISC would say he had no right to reasonably resist an unlawful police entry into his home (not that he knew it was the police/SWAT).
The Philadelphia situation is quite interesting, as well.
This ISC ruling was mentioned at the top of Rush Limbaugh's show today. It needs to go to the SCOTUS.
Thanks for the background, Dan.