Cary forgets to add the tidbit where he flipped the officer the bird!!!
In any case, there is NO SUCH thing as jurisdiction when a crime is clearly in view of an officer. The jurisdiction thing has to do with a crime perpetrated in one jurisdiction being charged or prosecuted in another.
Say you are at the border of state A and B and in state A there is an officer watching you and you commit a crime in state B. Said officer has a duty to perform his job given reasonable and probable cause. Usually it is for a generally accepted criminal offense such as Murder or Robbery or Larceny or DUI etc. You will likely be charged in the proper county but, there isn't a magic line like most would have you believe.
Of course there is also the intimidation of law abiding citizens like you and I that we all endure and allow the liberties to be trampled on because we are either not in the mood to go "through the system" just to prove a point and because we really don't know what our rights are. Officers who like the game, enjoy the ignorance and fear.
I say you play a game of knowledge and next time toss a few facts around that will make him/her think twice about stepping to far outside the norm. It works wonders in NYC ... once I was in the Subway at 14th st A Train station taking pictures of the art work throughout. An officer said I wasn't allowed to take pictures and I promptly reminded them that it is indeed completely legal for me to photograph the entire platform as long as I didn't shoot into the tunnels or into sensitive areas... he then tried to tell me I was too close to the edge and I would be in violation of code if I stepped on to the yellow line near the platform.
Since he was now really reaching, I asked him to arrest everyone in the station when the train arrived and all the pax got off. His partner took it from there and promptly grabbed the officer by his arm and pulled him away to the other end of the station. Sometimes it is that kind of silliness that gets me in trouble... Remember this:
A police officer who knows the law will simply arrest you without first warning you if you truly are violating the law.
Plain and simple. The minute you are warned, they are making $ h i t up!! I never heard anyone get warned for breaking and entering LOL.
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