(February 3, 2016 at 8:29 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: It was a little more complex in RL than what SCOTUS saw.
Apparently Hardwick was caught inflagrante delicto (spell check no help this occasion) and the cops had entered his home/bedroom on an invalid warrant. Had Hardwick been a little more docile to the cops they were inclined to move on, except he wasn't, so they felt compelled to arrest him for something at that point, and away we go.
See, today they would have just shot him and said they feared for the safety of their own assholes.