The apartment Maye was occupying at the time WAS listed on the search warrant that was signed by an impartial judge. This makes the search legal, period. Search warrants are listed for an address because you are obtaining legal permission to violate a person 14th Amendmant rights to search for illegal property. Again a serach warrant is NOT an arrest warrant, if you want to arrest the person you need an arrest warrant or probable cause.
I will agree that there are crooked cops, only a fool would state otherwise. Power can corrupt.
However, all we have heard on this particular case is the criminals side. Everyone keeps saying that he was a law abiding citizen, he was not. He was a felon because he was in possession of a stolen firearm. That in and of itself is a felony.
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I have not said that he was a law abiding citizen, only that HE was not the target of the original search warrant. Fine, if his apartment WAS included, there had to be probable cause for it to be so, and then I maybe would rethink my position. However, from the actions of this PARTICULAR police force prior to all other so far stated sources, Maye was not the first nor primary target of this drug bust.
In any case, it is a sad situation. When the one party is not there to testify, it only becomes Maye's word against the intent of the police. A bad situation to be put into no matter what. I do not see the significance of his illegal weapon. So, how did this still make the case first degree capital homicide? Fine, he was guilty of many possible things and he had an illegal weapon, but in any case, the police confronted him in the middle of the night with no foreseeable reasons to do so.
I see where you are coming from , Feregir, but I do not agree with you. If this building was suspected of being a drug dealing location, there were MUCH better ways to go about the searches.
I guess the better motto would be is to NOT resort to such drastic tactics, they make for nothing but histrionics AND bad publicity. If you know where the drug dealers are, take them out in the safest and most certain way that you can. Kicking in doors in the middle of the night is NOT the way to go about it.