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To: lugsoul
It is mind boggling how so many here consider the expansion of the power of the state to be "conservative."

Surely you're kidding. There is nothing in the Fourth Amendment about knock-and-announce. The warrant gives law enforcement the right to enter in any way they see fit.

Or are you merely arguing the contrarian position?

43 posted on 06/15/2006 8:22:27 AM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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To: sinkspur
Surely you're kidding. There is nothing in the Fourth Amendment about knock-and-announce. The warrant gives law enforcement the right to enter in any way they see fit.

No-knock raids, absent demonstrable exigent circumstances, are patently unreasonable since they provide the target of the raid no means to determine within a meaningful timeframe whether the people entering the property are doing so legally, or whether they are dangerous criminals who should be shot immediately.

There are some situations, such as hostage rescue, where the risks posed by such tactics are outweighed by the necessity of rescuing innocents. For the most part, though, no-knock raids subject people to unnecessary and unreasonable danger.

177 posted on 06/15/2006 3:20:29 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: sinkspur
I have to agree with Lugspur on this one! Small-town SWAT teams will use this ruling to break down doors every chance they get. I know the police around here, and I don't trust them to get it right.

Agree with the ruling? Wait until it's your door that is broken down in the middle of the night because Billy Bob, the town Deputy, got the wrong house or the wrong street.

Innocent people will get killed as a result of this ruling when Billy Bob simply breaks through the door and grandpa pulls out the shotgun next to his bed.

The Fourth Amendment is there to protect grandpa and the "conservative" court just found him guilty because his house number is wrong.

234 posted on 06/15/2006 4:56:01 PM PDT by Small-L (I love my country, but I despise the politicians who run (ruin) it.)
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