To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
They've got a warrant. Isn't that due process? I just don't see how knocking first makes a difference. Let's say they knock and no one answers, but they've got a warrant. Do they have to leave and come back?
46 posted on
06/15/2006 8:26:18 AM PDT by
Huck
(Hey look, I'm still here.)
To: Huck
They've got a warrant. Isn't that due process?
But the door is innocent.
You got something against the rights of doors or are you just insennnnnnnnnnsitive?
81 posted on
06/15/2006 9:35:08 AM PDT by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: Huck
Then they have to say: "So we'll huff and puff and blow your door in"....three times, take two steps backwards and announce: "If we don't hear "not by the hair of my chiny, chin chin" in three seconds, we're coming in"..."ready or not"....so help me God!!
102 posted on
06/15/2006 10:57:30 AM PDT by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Huck
They've got a warrant. Isn't that due process? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought even a search warrant has to be "served" before it is valid. The knock represents the serving of the warrant. I didn't think we allowed secret (non-served) warrants to be acted upon.
104 posted on
06/15/2006 10:58:09 AM PDT by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: Huck
They've got a warrant. Isn't that due process? I just don't see how knocking first makes a difference. Let's say they knock and no one answers, but they've got a warrant. Do they have to leave and come back? The police should conduct themselves in such a way that a reasonable person could determine their legitimacy prior to surrendering to them. Absent extreme exigent circumstances, the police should not initiate any action that an innocent person could construe as a deadly threat. It is possible to search apparently-unoccupied premises while maintaining such conduct.
178 posted on
06/15/2006 3:24:24 PM PDT by
supercat
(Sony delenda est.)
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