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On January 14, 2003, a police SWAT team dressed in black masks and camouflage outfits conducted a raid on the home of Jillian D. King’s boyfriend in Muncie, Indiana. The officers were executing a no-knock warrant after finding cocaine inside the car of another resident of the house. After seeing the police officers approach the house and fearing they were intruders, King, who had previously been robbed at gunpoint, fired at the officers. King was charged with felony criminal recklessness and drug possession. King originally pled guilty to the charges, but after a judge refused the terms of the guilty plea, her case went to trial. At trial, King explained she “saw what appeared to be a burglar jerking at the door,” and then “ran down and got a gun and shot out a window.” King further stated she “would have opened the door” if she had known the intruders were police. The prosecutor trying King’s case described her as having “an itchy trigger finger.” While the Muncie SWAT team testified they had announced themselves before entering, video of the raid showed officers prying open the door before knocking or announcing their presence. The jury ultimately deadlocked on the issue of King’s guilt and the validity of her self-defense claim. It is fortunate that no one was injured during the police raid in which King was involved. Despite this good fortune, King’s case raises an interesting question on what the result would have been had she injured or killed one of the police officers. Mainly, would the jury have been deadlocked if King had

Don't Forget to Knock: Eliminating the Tension Between Indiana's Self Defense Statute and No-Knock Warrants