{"id":6964,"date":"2012-04-11T10:35:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T19:04:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T19:04:45","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6964","title":{"rendered":"Grand Junction: State Trooper on trial for homicide for shooting homeowner insisting on a search warrant; says he saw a flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Junction: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gjsentinel.com\/breaking\/articles\/prosecutors-4th-amendment-front-and-center-in-trooper-trial\/\">DA: Search central in State Trooper\u2019s trial<\/a> by Paul Shockley:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>District Attorney Pete Hautzinger carried the unhinged front door that once stood at the Redlands home \u2014 splintered at an end and black shoe prints from police officers\u2019 kicks elsewhere \u2014 into a courtroom today as the prosecution told jurors that the Fourth Amendment to U.S. Constitution was front and center in the trial of Colorado State Patrol trooper Ivan \u201cGene\u201d Lawyer, who\u2019s charged in the shooting death of 31-year-old Jason Kemp.<\/p>\n<p>He told them to get a search warrant, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJason Kemp died demanding his constitutional rights be honored,\u201d Deputy District Attorney Todd Hildebrandt said during opening statements in Lawyer\u2019s trial.  \u201cAnd the only force he (Kemp) used was trying to prevent them from coming inside his home.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Kemp would have been justified that day in defending his home with deadly force as allowed under the doctrine of Colorado\u2019s Make My Day law, the prosecutor told jurors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat force can be applied against a police officer,\u201d Hildebrandt said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6964\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}