Q: Is legal for the police to open my door and enter my home, without first informing me they had an arrest warrant?
My 65 year old husband went to court for a seatbelt violation and was fined by the judge. He simply forgot about it. The police came to our home, entered, then informed us they had a warrant. The local sheriff called my husband a criminal three times, in front of our children, lied to me about bailing him our of jail, yelled at my daughter and stuck his finger in her face when she began to cry, and threatened to arrest me when I asked him to stop doing that. All the while he raged back and forth to his car sneering about how we were disrespecting him, and how he didn't have to tell us anything. We were upset and frightened. We are law abiding people. Is the way the sheriff treated us, legal? Thank you.
A: The answer is probably. But what you need to do is certainly to get a local private criminal defense attorney, and perhaps make a solid complaint about this with the proper authority.
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