Barnes v. State of Indiana (Redux)
The Indiana Supreme Court Tuesday ruled there is no right to use force or violence to prevent police from coming into your home, even if that entry is unlawful. The holding is a clarification of an earlier ruling where the Court said there was no right to resist police entry.
The opinion caused a lot of controversy and sparked a legislative study committee. I personally think it strikes the right balance between common sense and the 4th Amendment because usually we don’t know if an entry was illegal until after the fact and too much can go wrong in that time.
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