>The traffic stop came at the end of a pursuit in which one of the three passengers jumped from the car and fled on foot. The suspect was armed and carrying drugs.
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>Other people were ordered inside and they complied. Gibson refused that lawful order and the jury convicted her.
Question: Why was the order lawful?
Question: She was on her own property which, presumably was free of any connection to the passenger who fled... further, if the fugitive *were* on her property wouldn’t the police’s order be for her (and other innocents) to come out so they could go into a situation where there would be no innocent bystanders to get hurt?
Question: The police were called once, and told that I was “waving a gun around” on my own property [it was untrue, I wasn’t even at my house when the call went in]; they came onto the property with guns drawn and were looking-into/snooping around a neighbor’s vehicle and when the neighbor confronted them they a)refused to give their names and b)told her to get inside — Was that a ‘lawful order’?
It was made pursuant to law. The matter was tried in court. She was convicted.
Or are you asking why we should have laws?