Timeline for When can a civilian refuse to assist a police officer?
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| Sep 12, 2017 at 5:02 | comment | added | Upnorth | Consider whether unauthorized entry to an apartment is a trespass, under those circumstances, and whether aiding and abetting the police in the trespass, making you an accomplice, may be legally justified to the jury, when being tried for that crime. Lawyers get big bucks to figure out the likely outcome before you make a plea bargain. | |
| Sep 10, 2017 at 4:52 | vote | accept | neokyle | ||
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| Sep 9, 2017 at 16:39 | comment | added | Andrew Steitz | Not "answering" because I don't know but I certainly hope that you could not have been cited/arrested for what you did. I usually side with police when there is a question of whether they should have done something but in your situation he did not have a warrant (or he would, I hope, have said so) and did not have probable cause for an arrest because then he would have been justified in smashing in the door and would not have asked you to unlock it. Without probable cause, jimmying the door would have been, I believe, breaking and entering. Police deserve our help but should not abuse it. | |
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| Sep 9, 2017 at 4:26 | history | asked | neokyle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |