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So a cop could just enter your residence and snoop around?

posted 7 years ago by DialingForDollarhyde
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When you weren't even home? He didn't even have a warrant or even tangible evidence that Kersey was the doer.

Almost as lame as Sinatra bribing Spinell to look around the perp's pad in The First Deadly Sin.

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[–] laurieann74 (97) 4 years ago

I noticed the same thing. He just breaks into his apartment without a shred of evidence, no warrant or anything else. Anything he finds would be inadmissible in a court of law. Stupid silly copper!

[–] ATG6 (3000) 3 years ago

They didn't want to convict him though, just find out who he was and scare him off, so the bad guys would think he was still out there. So they didn't need legal evidence.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20516) 3 years ago

This is correct. Cops still do shady things all the time today.

[–] millsey72 (9606) 4 months ago

Yea, all cops are crooked, especially in NYC

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72244) 4 months ago

Probably illegal but he was on to something.

Inadmissible in court in any event but...he kind of knew.