Illegal to warn someone the cops are coming to their house to get them?

[disneykid52]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida or any US state

Is it really illegal to warn a person the cops are coming to their house to get them?

 

[CdwJava]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida or any US state

Is it really illegal to warn a person the cops are coming to their house to get them?

Do you have any context? Or, is this simply a very broad, general query?

The short answer is that it might be ... given the right fact set.

 

[disneykid52]

Do you have any context? Or, is this simply a very broad, general query?

The short answer is that it might be ... given the right fact set.

May sound silly but I was watching Law and Order and the cop said that as they were leaving someone they were questioning to go pickup the suspect

 

[CdwJava]

Well, the police can SAY anything ... whether they could back that threat up with an actual criminal charge might depend on a great many things.

One should never get their legal information from a television show, anyway.

 

[disneykid52]

Well, the police can SAY anything ... whether they could back that threat up with an actual criminal charge might depend on a great many things.

One should never get their legal information from a television show, anyway.

I realize that but then you think the shows would follow the letter of the law

 

[Mass_Shyster]

I realize that but then you think the shows would follow the letter of the law

The first season of Law and Order was pretty good with following actual caselaw. After that they started taking liberties.

 

[CdwJava]

The decisions made and the actions taken might have some foundation in case law or actual police procedure, but the time constraints of television rarely allow them to explain why or how the act is permitted or done. Sort of like reading a short news article on a particular case - you don't get the details or the context, only the Reader's Digest version ... or, inb the case of TV, that which is most conducive to the plotline.