The Supreme Court agreed
Monday to consider how far police can go in searching homes and
questioning occupants without violating their constitutional rights.
Justices will review the case of two Simi Valley officers ordered to
pay $60,000 to Iris Mena, who awoke at dawn in 1998 to find an officer
in a ski mask pointing a submachine gun at her head. SWAT team members
kept Mena in handcuffs and questioned her for three hours while the
home was searched. [more]
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