SUPREME COURT ISSUES RULING ON POLICE POWER

On Monday the Supreme Court ruled that Los Angeles police officers who mistakenly entered the wrong house and ordered an innocent, unclothed, sleeping couple out of their bed at gun point did not violate the Constitution. The Court ruled against the couple even though the officers could have checked to see who owned the home, and would have thereby determined that the house had been sold to the innocent couple months before the search.

 This case may not be reported at all in local media, even though it's a Supreme Court case reversing a lower court's ruling that the police violated the couple's constitutional rights. When you check your local media please let us know if they are reporting on this case at all, and, if so, if the case is being reported in a biased and unbalanced way.

The case is Los Angeles County v. Rettele, 06-605.