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Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home
NWI Times ^ | Friday, May 13, 2011 3:56 pm | Dan Carden

Posted on 05/13/2011 6:33:44 PM PDT by WildSnail

INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.

In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer's entry.

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The Indiana Supreme Court has apparently decided that the 4th amendment should join selected other parts of the Constitution on the bathroom tissue roll. Maybe they should just declare the entire Constitution unconstitutional and be done with it.

What ever happened to the country I grew up in?

1 posted on 05/13/2011 6:33:47 PM PDT by WildSnail
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That sounds like bad law.

Time to send this case to the USSC.


2 posted on 05/13/2011 6:37:21 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: WildSnail

Time to disbar Steven David. He’s an enemy of the Constitution.


3 posted on 05/13/2011 6:39:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: WildSnail

We have Republican RINO to thanks for this judge.

“Governor Mitch Daniels has made his first pick to the Indiana Supreme Court and it is Boone Co. Circuit Court Judge Steven David.”


4 posted on 05/13/2011 6:39:41 PM PDT by WaterBoard
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To: MediaMole

I think the idea is that you can solve it later in court vs having a fist or firefight each time you think the cop is entering your house illegally.

The problem is that the cop isn’t punished for doing so, the taxpayers are.


5 posted on 05/13/2011 6:39:44 PM PDT by mewykwistmas (Lost your job as a birther under Obama? Become a 'deather'! Where's Bin Laden's death certificate?)
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To: WildSnail

Agreed. The US Constitution trumps that state in this issue.


6 posted on 05/13/2011 6:43:18 PM PDT by svcw (Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
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To: WildSnail; muawiyah
Another FR thread posted HERE.
7 posted on 05/13/2011 6:43:18 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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" ... if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer's entry."

BOOOOOOO SHIT !!!!

8 posted on 05/13/2011 6:44:42 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: mewykwistmas

I think most people would “take some offense” at anyone breaking into their home. Hoosiers...recall that worthless, putrid, Constitution-hating, Bill-of-Rights-hating judge.


9 posted on 05/13/2011 6:44:52 PM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi; All

Sorry, I looked but didn’t see the other post.


10 posted on 05/13/2011 6:45:11 PM PDT by WildSnail (The US government now has more control over the people than the old Soviet Union ever dreamed of)
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To: WildSnail

I’ve read this, very interesting. Based on what we know from the articles, IMO, the ruling should have centered around whether the entry was lawful. I’d say it was lawful entry as the police were in pursuit and had probable cause.

The disturbing part is the court attempted to redefine the 4th amendment with the ruling. I guess in Indiana now if someone knows the “password” police, you have to open your door. Wonder what they would think about looking at the business end of a Colt 1911 when the door opens?


11 posted on 05/13/2011 6:47:05 PM PDT by IamConservative (The Bin Laden Cocktail: 2 shots and a splash.)
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Kiss my behind Indiana.


12 posted on 05/13/2011 6:47:21 PM PDT by Drango (NO-vember is payback for April 15th)
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To: WildSnail
Well, hey. Always a bright side. Now the cops can break into your house illegally, find some probable cause, and charge you with something, anything, to justify their criminal trespass.
13 posted on 05/13/2011 6:49:11 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Insane, Corrupt Democrats or Stupid, Spineless Republicans - Pick America's poison.)
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Now I see that this is the 3rd thread. The original (?) one is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2719318/posts

Mod — pull this thread please!


14 posted on 05/13/2011 6:50:07 PM PDT by WildSnail (The US government now has more control over the people than the old Soviet Union ever dreamed of)
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To: MediaMole

Agree!


15 posted on 05/13/2011 6:52:10 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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I think the idea is that you can solve it later in court vs having a fist or firefight each time you think the cop is entering your house illegally.

I really don't care what the court says - if they ain't got a warrant, they're entering illegally and are thus subject to being killed.

Didn't the police somewhere just kill a Marine Veteran that SERVED THIS COUNTRY in Iraq? Seems that it's OK in the judge's eyes for the cops to kill people defending their property, but it's not OK for people to protect that for which they have worked.

This country is getting more and more like NAZI Germany.

16 posted on 05/13/2011 6:53:32 PM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: WildSnail

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2719318/posts - 165 replies.

If this is appealed, I suspect it will be overturned.


17 posted on 05/13/2011 6:53:33 PM PDT by upchuck (Think you know hardship? Ha! Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: WildSnail
THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER THREADS.

Some of us suspect that this is being fostered by Obots who are trying to get Freepers to make threats about judges.

18 posted on 05/13/2011 6:53:50 PM PDT by muawiyah
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19 posted on 05/13/2011 6:54:07 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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Currently, if an LEO walks into your house uninvited, without a search warrant and finds, say, a bag of grass on your kitchen table and arrests you for possession, the case would be thrown out. No probable cause.

This is major.


20 posted on 05/13/2011 6:55:12 PM PDT by Signalman
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