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Court dilemma: Can cops force their way into homes over misdemeanors?

The castle doctrine protects people in their homes from invasion and assault, but a case before the U.S. Supreme Court could change that.

It would give police unrestricted rights to barge into homes when the dispute is over something as minor as a misdemeanor traffic infraction.

“That can’t be right,” contends a friend-of-the-court brief from the Institute for Justice in the case California vs Lange.

“Start with a simple example: Under the lower court’s categorical rule, a police officer who saw a man jaywalk across the street and enter his home could claim he was in ‘hot pursuit’ – even if the jaywalker was unaware – and burst into his home without a warrant,” the brief says.

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5 thoughts on “Court dilemma: Can cops force their way into homes over misdemeanors?”

  1. Gonna get a lot of cops killed if they chose to follow orders instead of the Constitution. I am not a cop hater by any stretch but the ones who chose job over duty (to serve and protect) will leave widows and orphans behind. I am hoping they will be few and far between. Just saying.

  2. Gonna say here what a cop friend and a lawyer friend both said to me. “Make sure the person you shot dies, dead men don’t testify against you”. Shot to kill and keep shooting till the cop dies, after they are down keep pumping bullets into them. A couple in the head also help. When asked why you continued to fire the gun you just say you were frightened for your life and blanked out till the gun was empty.

  3. “Shot to kill and keep shooting till the cop dies, after they are down keep pumping bullets into them.”

    You are both illiterate and truly ignorant.

    Also, regarding your “cop friend and lawyer,” they are simply wrong. If they were right, no homicide case could ever be prosecuted, since the victim is always dead.

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