You now have present a group of corroborating police officer witnesses (with their assumed veracity) to get past qualified immunity, and above all, it is easy as pie to get a retro-dated warrant. Compose the anticipatedly-weak “bare-bones” affidavit as the case progresses (an old crooked defense attorney trick). You will wonder what sedative the judge was on when he approved this warrant application. Of course the documents are verified by the good ol’ clerk at some leisurely time later.

What is needed in my opinion: mandatory verified proof of the existence of a warrant application affidavit at the exact time it purports to exist. This can be done by fax, email, or saving of even an unsigned document to a Word or PDF file.

Where are those wise legislators when you need ‘em?

Here in Lewzianer, we are about to have a holiday where if we suspect you of DWI we will call the standby-judge for a warrant. I guess a fax will be involved somewhere in that process; shame they can’t seem to fax warrant application affidavits and warrants on a regular basis.

Our committment to ethics here is astounding.

“America’s criminal justice system has deteriorated
to the point that it is a national disgrace.
With five percent of the world’s population,
our country houses 25 percent of the world’s
prison population,” said Sen. Webb.

“As the consequence of “three strikes laws,” the increase in the duration of incarceration in the last decade was most pronounced in the case of life prison sentences, which increased by 83% between 1992 and 2003″

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_the_United_States

The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate,[3][4] and total documented prison population in the world.[5][6] As of year-end 2007, a record 7.2 million people were behind bars, on probation or on parole. Of the total, 2.3 million were incarcerated.[7] More than 1 in 100 American adults were incarcerated at the start of 2008. The People’s Republic of China ranks second with 1.5 million, while having four times the population, thus having only about 18% per the US incarceration rate.[8][9]

Interesting, use of “alleged” here. True factual allegations are no longer alleged. Do I sense a further careless devaluation of the word here?
This time it serves the target of the LE action unlike the usual superficial use of “alleged” by the media to cover themselves while the rest of their pieces clearly say “obviously guilty”.

It is my hope too…that the 4th Circuit…follows the lead of the 5th Circuit…with regard to protecting one’s constitutional rights…and only allows the use of SWAT teams…for the purposes for which they were intended…to perform HIGH-risk operations that fall outside of the abilities of regular officers, including serving HIGH-risk arrest warrants, barricaded suspects, hostage rescue, counter-terrorism, and engaging heavily-armed criminals… and NOT as the FCPD used theirs…for routine police work…in the serving of a document search warrant…on my son…who they knew…made his living as an optometrist…did not own, possess or carry any firearms or other lethal weapons; had no criminal record; had no known reputation or propensity for violence; and had no known incidents of violence in his background…but they used SWAT…and their excessive force tactics anyway.

Without making any threatening moves…my 37 year old son was nevertheless shot and killed…outside of his condo…on Jan. 24, 2006…by a veteran FCPD SWAT officer.

Justice demands that the court addresses the issues of When and How SWAT is used…by our Police Departments…who are sworn to protect and serve its citizens…and the court must be “sensitive to the need to protect an individual’s constitutional rights” because this IS still America.

http://www.justiceforsal.com

In the Rack “N Roll Billiard Club case, see above video, the basic intent was to get the club’s owner on a felony charge. The police had investigated him for six months and came up with nothing (because there was nothing). So they got an idea that was sure to get him.

Since the RNR Club had an ABC license restricted to beer sales, if there was hard liquor found on the premises, Mr. Ruttenberg, the owner, would be facing a felony ABC charge. To make sure this happened the police enlisted two stooges, both with pending drug charges, to hide liquor on Mr. Ruttenberg’s premises. Once the liquor was on the premises, they would orchestrate a raid com- bining an ABC inspection with a Prince William/Manassas/Massas Park Joint Narcotics Task Force op., allegedly to serve arrest warrants on “drug dealers,” and then, ohmygod, “discover” the illegal alcohol. Mr. Ruttenberg, much to their delight, would be heading for jail.

The stooges planted two identical unopened half gallon bottles of vodka, in separate locations, about two days before the raid. Unfortunately for the police, Mr. Ruttenberg, through a very unusual stroke of good luck (a story in itself) found and removed the bottles. When the raid went down with some 50 officers, seven or eight in masks, armor and SWAT gear in general, their only arrest, executed within 3 minutes of the start, was one of the two stooges (the only individual in the Club with any drug background but an individual who was working for the police – witness his planting of the liquor). After this arrest, as clearly demonstrated by the one hour video from inside the club, they spent the next 50+ minutes searching frantically in the exact location they believed the liquor had been planted – sometimes more than three of them at a time and including the SWAT members as well as the ABC – for what wasn’t there. It would be hilarious if it hadn’t been so detrimental to Mr. Ruttenberg and the business he spent twenty years building.

The District Court judge has ignored, not even mentioned, all the foregoing in his misguided attempt to protect these power hungry, crooked cops. Let’s hope the 4th Circuit, on appeal, is more sensitive to the need to protect individual constitutional rights. If not, the Supreme Court would seem a logical next stop.

:)

You need to visit here and get your card printed.

Notice the statement for not inventorying your vehicle.

http://www.motorists.org/blog/roadblock-rights-card/

There is a full sheet or wallet size at the bottom of page.

I wonder how many suspects it would take to allow the search of all patrons… back some 10-12 years ago, police raided Club Firestone in Orlando FL… they had arrest warrants for some 75 people they had bought drugs from in undercover stings over a period of months… this particular night, they shut down the club and searched everyone, arresting those that were in position of drugs even if they had no warrants on them… in all, they arrested some 55 people…

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