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Records Sealed in Canton Drug Raid Death
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Yesterday, I mentioned the case of Darryl P. Ross, a man shot and killed during a drug raid on his home. Curiously, there’s been no mention of what, if any, illicit drugs police found in Ross’s home. His family is calling his death a murder, and trying to raise money for a private investigation.
That may now prove difficult. A judge has ordered all police documents in the case–including the search warrant, police affidavit, and evidence return sheet–sealed. The given justification was to protect the identity of the confidential informant in the case.
This is really saddening. So are they protecting their CI from being outed because they know that it’s some criminal lowlife that they’re paying? And they don’t want the reporters to find out who they are?
Let’s face it: the cops are creating a whole group of people, their CI’s, who are basically getting ‘protection’ in return for being spies for the cops. I’m guessing that they’re learning from the Ryan Frederick tragedy, and not letting anyone get to those CI’s to make their case look as bad.
Somehow, I don’t think this is what the courts had in mind with the Miranda ruling.
Sealed for how long? Until the rat related cases come to a close? What about FOIA? Inevitabaly we could find out why an innocent man was murdered by the state…again.
Sealed = Covered Up
Silly people. The guy was a convicted felon. It doesn’t matter if he paid his debt to society long ago, he was definitely up to something and therefore deserved to die. So there really is no need to look at the facts of the case. You already know what you need to. Move along. Nothing to see here.
/sarcasm
Of course they’re going to seal the records! They have to have time to get their stories straight. There’s no chance in hell that this family will get their case to court, especially in Ohio.
The 6th anniversary of my sons murder during a botched raid is approaching and this stuff still continues to amaze me! What can we as citizens do to stop the madness??
I can understand the interest in protecting the CI from violent retaliation. However that could easily be achieved by redacting his name from the records. The fact that they are sealing the entire record reeks of cover-up.
Why isn’t shedding light on the circumstances that resulted in this man’s death a compelling state interest? –I think we know the answer.
God forbid they just redact any identifying information on the CI while still handing over the records. That would be way too just and appropriate.
Expect this trick to soon be standard procedure all over the country.
The police are a mafia, pure and simple.
Sorry, Tom, there was a delay in my post going up. Great minds or some such crap…
CI’s are absolutely disgusting! It’s my opinion that if you’re going to accuse someone of a crime, you shouldn’t be allowed to hide who you are. That’s how police states work!
What would happen if a large number of people started calling in fake tips and mailing small packages of drugs to high-ranking police and politicians? Would enough dogs, people and cops get killed to bring an end to those legitimized organize crime rackets we call police departments?
I was sizzling pissed when I read the words of the police spokesperson in the Calvo case, “the Calvos were unfortunate victims of drug dealers/evildoers who exploited the US mail system…” WTF? What? No, no. They were victims of police who routinely exploit the Bill of Rights to wage war on American citizens. Sadly, most people probably believed the former, not the latter. I really worry about the future of our once-great country…
Interesting thought PSYOP, but I think too many well meaning people would be made examples of before any cessation of police madness. In the Netherlands before relaxation of drug laws, activists played the “Marihu Game” driving the police crazy with false arrests and searches for look-alike drug transactions. Today, most states have laws making lookalike drugs real drugs in the eyes of the law. It’s shocking we don’t/can’t remove the most egregious legislators from office for lack of oversight? The same old farts keep making the same bad laws and don’t ever question police tactics.
The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Yup, Bush and his criminal gang have provided the SOP for government thugs everywhere.
I don’t give a damn what kind of info they thought they had that did not consitute killing him. I was involve with him for a year and a half on a personal level and we remained friends, he was not that kind of person. i agree with his family… we have a bunch of trigger happy cops and they were just itching to kill someone that day… He will be missed by all that knew him.
They just decided that there will be no criminal charges against the police.