Posted: 6/19/2006 6:03:51 PM EDT
Ah, jeez...getting closer and closer to a police state.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jun 19, 2006 6:23 pm US/Pacific Court Clarifies What Constitutes A Police Chase (AP) SAN FRANCISCO The California Supreme Court says police cars chasing a suspect need to have more than flashing lights and a siren if a driver is charged with evading police. Monday's ruling clarifies a key element necessary to convict a motorist of evading police. Ruling 5-to-2, the justices said a vehicle must look like an official police car -- that is, it must be equipped with a siren, police lights, plus some other feature marking it as an official vehicle. The court did not say exactly what those features have to be, but the opinion mentions police logos, various lighting styles and paint jobs. The decision reverses several appeals court decisions that said juries do not have to find that the vehicle had more than police lights and a siren. |
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Link to Decision After Black & Whites joined in, he should have stopped. |
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Tag. So if it's not really a 'chase', then do the cops still get sued when the bad guy wipes out running from them? "You see yer honor, we weren't really 'pursuing' him so to speak, as the State Supreme Court ruled that it's not really a pursuit if one of the cars is an unmarked unit". -K |
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