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To: HwyChile
You can go read the other 20 threads on this. You will find the decision pretty quickly.

I've posted the URl several times.

15 posted on 05/19/2011 1:03:51 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
I've posted the URl several times.

If it is that easy to fine, do me a favor and just post it again here.

From what I read in the articles on this, it looks like the court made bad law when the facts probably gave the police probably cause to enter (because the parties actually called the police in a domestic dispute). The court then went way too far saying that if the police enter unlawfully, there is no self-defence afforded to the homeowner (they have to go to court about it after they are dead).

Here is what a law professor said about it:

Ivan Bodensteiner, a professor at the Valparaiso University School of Law, said:

Bodensteiner said the decision doesn't really give police the power to enter anyone’s home illegally — it simply states that if they do, the resident must turn to the courts for relief.

That is not acceptable.

22 posted on 05/19/2011 1:15:26 PM PDT by HwyChile
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