Topic: Surviving encounters with police

Busted: The Citizens' Guide to Surviving Police Encounters is a 45-minute video produced by the ACLU.  It shows several demonstrations of how people can successfully conduct themselves during encounters with police officers in the United States.   

This video is required viewing for everyone who ever sets foot on American soil!  If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.   Please forward the link to your friends and relatives.

Watch the video here.

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Law.com's Alyson M. Palmer wrote:

A man's home is still his castle, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, declaring a Georgia woman couldn't give away her husband's Fourth Amendment rights.

In a 5-3 decision that backed up a previous ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court, the U.S. high court said that one household occupant's permission for police to enter the home does not give law enforcement an exception to the warrant requirement if another occupant stands in the doorway and protests that entry.

Complete article: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1143030603074

Re: Surviving encounters with police

Would they have decided the same if the husband said ok but the woman said no? hmm...

This is no time for the righteous
Only the wicked survive
Bake up a batch of the Yellow Cake
Bake up a batch of the lies
- - - - -[ Yellow Cake - Ministry - Rio Grande Blood (2006)

Re: Surviving encounters with police

An excellent database containing summaries of the most interesting and important US Supreme Court cases is available at this page of Oyez.org.