[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:06:23 EDT
So would it be fair to say that the police had the power to do that which
they had not the right to do?
Julie Krueger
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for months on end Date: 6/7/05 4:59:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time From:
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JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> So, Robert, to beat a dead horse; did the officers have the power to use
> excessive force? Did they have the right to use excessive force?
I'm not sure why this question is directed at me. However (1) if they'd
been convicted of using excessive force, obviously they would have had,
at least in the eyes of the jury, the power, i.e., the ability to use
it. (2) 'Excessive force' is by definition too much force, or
unnecessary force, so one would have to conclude that in using it, the
police were acting illegally. In that sense, the police never have the
right to use excessive force, for it is, by definition, a crime.
Robert Paul
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