If the top photo hadn’t been met with arresting, dog siccing, firehoses etc., current feelings might be a little different. Never mind what went on for the 200 years prior...
As a legal matter, Indiana has a specific statute detailing when you can use force against a public servant. Sigblitz posted the citation to it.
As a practical or prudential matter, I know where I sit, but it is a very complicated question and not one I would really opine on over the Internet.
Here are a few I pulled up off of Google. “Immediate causal connection” seems to be the standard.
https://law.justia.com/cases/indiana/court-of-appeals/2002/10220201-jsk.html
https://secure.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/previous/archive/03130102.rdr.html...
Indiana already has a bunch of caselaw on this, which their legal experts should know.
While it is not based off this exact fact pattern, the Indiana Supreme Court has repeatedly held that commission of a crime preclusion of self-defense is not absolute and only applies if the violence is...
It has been many years since I have been there, it is a big lake and I can’t be of any help as to where the fish are. You very well may want to enlist a guide, particularly if you are wanting to fish walleye.
Trolling a Lindy rig, or drift fishing with leeches on a long leader was what we used...
My vague recollection from the Castile case is that Minnesota second-degree murder functions similarly to Indiana’s reckless homicide or involuntary manslaughter statute.
I halfway wonder if there don’t end up being pleas to state charges, in place of the feds filing. I seem to recall that...
I complete agree that it is terrible what these type of events due to society, however I believe that the focus should be on these events not happening, not upon the people they happen to becoming distrustful.
I am not trying to say or imply that anyone here is fine with what happened in...
Well, I guess the first sentence of your posts detailing the “saddest part”, with its specific take on how the black community will accuse whites and cops of racism is where I got that notion from.
If I am mistaken about that, I stand corrected. I still find it incredibly problematic that the...
The us vs. them mentality is far from limited to just one group you mention. It isn’t a super great look that you single out the folks that have a dead guy as the group that’s the problem here.
In my opinion, the “saddest part of this” has much more to do with the guy dying.
Was the saddest...
Don’t forget the great string fry versus steak fry controversy. My favorite Italian beef in the Indy area is at the Twisted Sicilian in Franklin, they do solid work.
To BBi’s point, there is a string of caselaw going back decades in Indiana that says as a matter of law, unexplained possession of stolen property that has not just been stolen is per se insufficient to support a conviction for theft/receiving absent additional evidence to prove that the person...
I doubt a case gets filed, the current caselaw makes it very unlikely to be successful.
The Governor’s motion was largely a spray-n-pray drive-by type of event.
From what I recall, Hill had made it fairly clear that he was going to run against Holcomb this year, so when the governor’s wing of the party got a hold of this, they have been running with it hard ever since.
There is a reason that Holcomb, Bosma, etc. immediately demanded his resignation...
So, you’re going to tell me that you know nothing of the famous American historical phrase “Taxation without representation is tyranny”, nevermind the Stamp Act Congress etc.?
If you missed that portion in history class, Google is your friend.
The legislature makes the law, the executive executes the law that the legislature makes. Just because the legislature has a judicial remedy to the executive attempting to perform legislative functions, doesn’t mean that the executive isn’t usurping authority the constitution has prohibited from...
To piggyback off of what BBI said, keep in mind that of the 12 people who sit on a jury, there is a very strong likelihood there will be a significant percentage of them who have never contemplated the idea that they might have to kill someone, much less considered what that entails.
To those...