I don’t think so. I think the criteria is whether or not there is an immediate threat that must be dealt with. Course I’m not a lawyer.
But, you can be sure that plenty of lawyers were in on the setting of the policies that dictated the actions of law enforcement in Watertown.
bull hockey, if they were, they need to go back to law school
Oh, I doubt lawyers were much involved. More like “we’re gonna find that f***** and kill him, send in everything we’ve got and let the lawyers sort it out later.” Tie it up in courts forever and shop for sympathetic judges. With the Supreme Court ruling as it did in _Raich_, pretty much any verdict desired can be achieved. If “immediate threat” applies on Watertown’s scale, Chicago could be put under permanent martial law to tomorrow. If the DC Sniper case didn’t warrant shutting down the entire city and taking every single gun by door to door search, then Watertown didn’t warrant its shutdown either.