So, cops can be protected by not knowing their actions are illegal in certain cases?

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http://biz.yahoo.com/law/050511/b891fb41eb2ab75a87b256db9afa2bf2.html?.v=1

In this case, the cop in question got pwn3d... but this portion is really quite.. well, hmmm....

In a decision written by Chief Judge J.L. Edmondson, the 11th Circuit on Monday reiterated its position that officers get qualified immunity when their actions, while illegal, were not "so clearly established that every reasonable officer would have known" they were illegal. But Stephens’ actions in his stop of former Georgia Southern University students Peter Evans and Detree Jordan went "well beyond the 'hazy border' that sometimes separates lawful conduct from unlawful conduct," wrote Edmondson.

Can anyone clarify what that "hazy border" is?

― donut e-goo (donut), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

The case dealt with claims by Evans and Jordan that on a January evening in 1999 they took a wrong turn on their drive from Atlanta to Statesboro.

Seriously.

― I shift gears when I see tears (deangulberry), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

(Of course, this minor case shows that certain cops can get away with anything, but i digress...)

― donut e-goo (donut), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

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