[Slings and Arrows]

Words fail me.

[pepsionice]

Just wannabe cops...nothing more than that. They don’t know much better because they are really trained or qualified.

[Artie]

Something smells here. How did the police come to be at the home anyway? Does hospice in the state of Utah contact them in all death notice cases? My experience is that the Hospice nurse will collect all unused medications after the death and destroy them with witnesses. This is very bizarre.

[wastedyears]

I hope that guy wins the lawsuit in spades.

[rawcatslyentist]

How dare subjects of the state attempt to treat or medicate themselves! It’s not like you have the right to treat your own body as you see fit. You will do as told, or you will be enslaved and sold.

[dsc]

“the Utah Controlled Substances Act provides authority for the search”

If true, would that law not be unconstitutional?

[freekitty]

Same here

[liberalh8ter]

How disgusting these officers were. Where has our compassion gone? And for this man's concerns to be dismissed as ‘overly sensitive’ tells me the breadth of that lack of compassion is overwhelming. I hope he takes them all to the cleaners.

[momtothree]

Can you imagine? In the worst moments of this man’s life, he is harassed by the cops. Do they not have Mothers or Fathers? Don’t they have a heart of the least little bit of compassion? When Mom passed, I had a ton of drugs. I called the pharmacy thinking I could let them have it. Nope, once they give out drugs, they can’t be returned. I called her family doctor and offered them so perhaps someone on limited income could receive them for free. Nope.. same story. So, I flushed them down the toilet. I didn’t know what else to do with them. Took about five flushes but they were gone. What this man needed at the time was a kind word, a “I’m sorry for your loss”, a “can I call someone to come and be with you”. However, he was treated like a criminal and this is infuriating.

[Teacher317]

Sounds like a journalism major wants to help the taxpayers hand out a few more millions to a highly sympathetic story (if it's true) via a jury.

Note that the ones who may have acted wrongly are in absolutely no danger of being punished or paying for their own bad acts.

[Ouderkirk]

surprised they didn’t try to confiscate his guns too

[microgood]

I hope he wins 100 million.

[GlockThe Vote]

The drug warriors will be by soon to defend this.

[Wolfie]

Jeez, this stuff was so much fun when it was just happening to those “undesiriable” types. Who could have guessed that these popular “Get Tough On Drugs”-style laws would be used against everybody?

[bike800]

So who notified the police? Or maybe they just have a death meter that tells them when people are about to die so they can just invade their home. Police investigate deaths all the time. They have to be signed off by the ME. i have done numerous death investigations over 21 years. I have never once taken drugs from a scene to just get them off the street. They always go with the body to the morgue. Of course the rescue personnel names are not on the medication either, so maybe we should he prosecuting them for posessing them on the ride to the morgue.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Fackrell said there's nothing in the controlled substances act that allows police to enter a home and search for prescription drugs without a warrant.

He's right:

Utah Controlled Substances Act - http://www.dopl.utah.gov/laws/58-37.pdf