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South Carolina Supreme Court temporarily bans no-knock warrants
WMBF News ^ | 7/11/2020 | WMBF news

Posted on 07/12/2020 6:38:07 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama

Edited on 07/12/2020 11:03:51 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

COLUMBIA, SC (AP) - The South Carolina Supreme Court has temporarily ordered judges to stop issuing

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 4thamendment; 5thamendment; crime; judicial; noknock; police; southcarolina; swat; warrants
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Although I agree with the intent of the court’s action, should this decision be in the bailiwick of the legislature rather than the judiciary? Just asking for a friend of course.


21 posted on 07/12/2020 7:34:19 AM PDT by buckalfa (Remember what the dormouse said. Feed your head. Feed your head.)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

True. It’s also quite telling that this country’s judiciary, which is charged with protecting the rights of citizens through the Constitution, never seemed to have a problem with it...


22 posted on 07/12/2020 7:38:20 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: buckalfa

Long term, the legislature will need to fix it. Short term the SC Supreme Court May have authority under SC’s constitution.


23 posted on 07/12/2020 7:53:54 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: Fido969
The judge should lead the team.

Yeah. Let him get shot first or be the one that shoots first.

24 posted on 07/12/2020 7:57:13 AM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: Fido969

“The judge should lead the team.”

Unless it’s Judge Sullivan.... Flynn might already be dead were that the case.


25 posted on 07/12/2020 8:01:31 AM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

“No-knock” entries are not supported by our Constitution. I wonder if any state’s Constitution actually allows them.


26 posted on 07/12/2020 8:35:06 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: wny

That is an excellent way to frame it.


27 posted on 07/12/2020 8:37:15 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Any state’s Constitution actually allows them.

See deep state they do it all the time,CNN has proof.


28 posted on 07/12/2020 8:43:37 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: KC_Lion

Encouraging that many here agree also and have not allowed the issue to become racialized or politicized. This is about freedom for all. And constitutional sanity.

Prayers for a renewed and restored sense of fairness, law, and order in this country. And smoother relations between cops and all communities.


29 posted on 07/12/2020 9:05:09 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: ExGeeEye
Up next, asset forfeiture (except as a penalty imposed as part of a sentence after a guilty verdict at trial).

Totally agree!

30 posted on 07/12/2020 9:13:26 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama (Self Defense is a Basic Human Right!)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Next up... overturn the “qualified immunity” which legally allowed cops to abuse us and not face legal consequences.


31 posted on 07/12/2020 9:38:18 AM PDT by John123 (It is Time for Debt Jubilee. Everything is Free)
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To: 2nd amendment mama
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32 posted on 07/12/2020 9:56:40 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

It’s a good start.


33 posted on 07/12/2020 10:31:44 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

The ONLY time a no knock warrant should be able to be used is if the place they are raiding has been under surveillance for more than 24 hours and they know EXACTLY what they are goign into and/or possibly have a “man on the inside”.

It should never be used at the drop of a hat for ANY residence, EVER!


34 posted on 07/12/2020 11:02:10 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: Fido969
Ironic that what brought on awareness of police abuses was the prevalence of video cameras.

That's why all the unions were so against them. It was sleight of hand when they were crying that "bodycams would make their job harder." Yeah, it will make coverups harder.

35 posted on 07/12/2020 11:12:18 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Whatever happened to the old-fashioned “stake out” where the occupants are arrested after having left the residence?

I suppose the cops don’t have the time for that anymore.


36 posted on 07/12/2020 11:28:44 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: Mouton

No. Ban no-knock warrants now. Figure out what, or even if, to replace them later - at leisure, with a full country-wide debate.


37 posted on 07/12/2020 11:50:05 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: bkopto

They can’t be bothered - they will surveill and surveill but they won’t do anything but watch.

Then they have the goon squad come in, no-knock the place, shoot up the general area - only to find out they have the wrong house or shot the wrong person.

I’ve posted this story a few times before, but it bears repeating:

A friend of mine lived in an area of Los Angeles that was near a notoriously high-crime sector of that city. To that end, he had reinforced his house and the entries thereof, to the point that his front entry was an armored “airlock” style double door chamber, much like those at a jewelry store. Except his had a 90 degree turn and didn’t allow enough room to swing a ram to open the second door.

About a year after he’d completed his modifications, one of the houses down the block became a meth lab/crack house. All the neighbors complained to the police about it. Eventually the police got around to raiding the place... but guess whose house they came to? Yup, my friend’s, because they couldn’t be bothered to read the house numbers properly.

I’m told the look on the SWAT members’ faces was priceless when they tried to ram the front door down and failed. They also tried to lob teargas in and effect entry through the windows when that failed; it didn’t work well through the polycarbonate sheeting he had instead of glass. He had a camera and intercom system installed, which the police didn’t bother to use. After he finally stopped laughing at their attempts and before they brought up some real equipment, he used his intercom to ask the police what they thought they were doing. They then claimed they had a warrant for this address. “Really? Hold it up to the camera and I’ll let you in if it’s valid.... Um, you might want to check the address on that, and then look at the number on the mailbox and painted on the curb.”

He never let them in, LAPD milled around for a while and then left.


38 posted on 07/12/2020 11:58:40 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: wny

I would call it a step beyond breaking and entering and describe it as an armed home invasion.

An issue very much on the minds of those who fought and laid down their lives against the British Empire in the late 18th Century.


39 posted on 07/12/2020 12:38:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (Covid is over. We have been conditioned by it. The Cultural Revolution has begun.)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

All they need to do is remove all liability exemptions and (blanket immunity) watch how fast things change.


40 posted on 07/12/2020 12:43:54 PM PDT by BOBWADE (WWG1WGA)
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