Federal court: police can break down door and seize guns without warrant or charges

Police State USA ^ | May 18, 2014 | staff

[Nachum]

If you like your constitution, you can... stuff it.

[Lazamataz]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Over.

[RIghtwardHo]

Insanity. And you KNOW the “conservative” SCOTUS would uphold this.

[kingattax]

[NormsRevenge]

The Federales are here .. Hide the COnstitution.

[Cicero]

I’d be more angry with the psychiatrist than the police. What ever happened to patient confidentiality? What business did she have calling the police?

[GeronL]

Where in the Constitution was this?

These judges need to be removed from the bench, all of them if you ask me.

[Lazamataz]

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist these days is clearly out of their mind.

[MHGinTN]

A federal court? About time for trials and firing squads for treason.

[Pollster1]

Having read the entire story, I am disgusted. Unless the facts are vastly different from the report, I would give this woman a whole lot of money in any civil lawsuit (and I hate civil lawsuits in general). I would also shun any cop involved in such reprehensible conduct. Once they found her talking normally through the door, their only legal authority to break into her home could come through a search warrant, and they didn’t bother to get one. The police were 100% legally wrong, and trampling her rights for what they claim to be her own good does not justify that wrong.

[Don Corleone]

Insanity. And you KNOW the “conservative” SCOTUS would uphold this.

But they will still vote "D" and often too.

[I cannot think of a name]

“A psychiatrist, Dr. Michelle Bentle, phoned police to report that a patient had expressed a suicidal thought during an outpatient appointment”

First gigantic mistake - going to a psychiatrist.

90% of the bartenders in the world give better advice. And it only costs a few drinks.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Wisconsin 7th District Appeals Court rules police can break into your home and seize guns if they think you may be suicidal.

FReep mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.

[PapaNew]

In short, Sutterfield’s privacy (which was admittedly encroached upon) was left unprotected by the Bill of Rights because of the “exigent circumstances” in which police executed an emergency detention — with no warrant, no criminal charges, and no input from the judiciary. Similarly, the gun confiscation was also deemed as acceptable due to the so-called “emergency” which police claimed had been taking place for 9 consecutive hours.

Probable cause of "exigent circumstances" as a valid reason to search a house without a warrant is settled law - nothing new. If the court found probable cause, then, again this is nothing new.

Not sure what the "qualified immunity" part is about though.

[fwdude]

They can’t have my guns, but they can have my ammo, through my guns.

[Don Corleone]

“America..we hardly knew ya’”

[pallis]

I bet this woman voted for the leftists who have made her a serf without rights. Surprise! They are all about control, not liberty or rights.

[UCANSEE2]

What ever happened to patient confidentiality? What business did she have calling the police?

It's now THE LAW.

[Aevery_Freeman]

...in the citizen’s best interest.

Of course it is in the citizens best interest to be unarmed...especially if everyone is unarmed.

[tsomer]

It's now THE LAW.

After that kid shot up the movie theater in Colorado, is that when this became law?

I was just going to reply that the woman ought to sue the shrink before reading your post.

Does she have any further recourse?