[Black_Knyght]

One solid point here, in my defense, is that it is legal to use force (read: personal use of violence) to resist forcible entry and/or assault in the state of California. Just so long as I didn't maim/kill him, anyway.

Which, despite great personal temptation and years of useful Marine training, I didn't.

Translation: If you kick in somebody's door in the state of CA, and they kick your a$$ because of it, you really have no recourse except arrest or flight from harm.

What irks me the most is not the personal risks involved, either physical or legal, but the stupid and pointless delays and postponements. California legislators talk about the bogged down legal system and the overburdened courts, but then allow such wastes of time, effort, and monies as this to be commonplace. It would seem to me that if you have a clear-cut case with solid evidence, and it doesn't involve a capital crime, prosecute the damned thing and be done with it.

But, to do so would actually make the lawyers and judiciaries EARN their pay by doing their jobs in a timely and efficient manner, instead of playing word games to drag it all out and collect their cash the easy way. They drag this stuff out so much that they often don't really have to do much of anything anyway, because the majority of cases plea out after innumerable delays and postponements, anyway.

Why bother doing your job when all you have to do is drag your feet until somebody else deals with it for you ???