That is undoubtedly why the Marion County Attorney has now withdrawn the search warrants because, to use his own words, 'insufficient evidence exists to establish a legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized.'
Then why did the county attorney issue the warrant if there wasn’t enough evidence? Sounds like Marion county is corrupt.
Yeah fuck that, they got caught and now just want to "withdraw" the search warrant that should've never been issued?
Nah we're gonna need to look into this a bit more. Why was the warrant issued? Who signed off on it? Who was the supervisor in charge when the raid happened? I'm concerned that there's more corruption and other invalid warrants.
Dig up all the dirt on these corrupt good ol'boy fucks. I guarantee this isn't the first time.
Anyone who's spent time as the focus of the police or around our court system is aware of what a joke search warrants are. The police just need to claim they have a confidential informant who saw something. That's sadly enough in most of the country. Funny, the CI is nowhere to be found when they don't find anything on the search and it's the warrants credibility is questioned by someone with enough money to have a lawyer investigate. Then if they do find something someone who needs a minor charge to disappear definitely saw whatever needed to be seen for the warrant. It's insanely corrupt. The unreasonable search and seizure part of the US constitution is violated hundreds of times a day.
Please see my reply to someone else's comment below (it's too long to subject people to twice). The short version is a mess of various people's greed, fear and corruption.
Small town pissing contest becomes nationwide concern because once again police show everyone that they believe they are the law. The irony in this is the paper never even had to publish the story to get it out. The cops did that with their actions.
It's really amazing. Literally everyone in the US would have continued to not know or care about these people until this blew up - and it's all their own doing! It's like the Streisand Effect, but without the subjects already being in any way already known or noteworthy.
Huh. Well look at that, they're all blank with a rubber stamp on it.
Hopefully every fucking warrant for the last decade get combed through with a magnifying glass and every one of these criminals face charges.
Don't worry, an independent panel of police officers already found them innocent of any wrongdoing.
It was so obvious they are innocent that the panel didn't have to even go there or look at anything.
To top it off, they awarded those under investigation an extra month of PTO and a settlement for the PTSD they experienced for being under such scrutiny!
if you look into statistics of how many warrants are actually denied, you might be shocked. i wont, cuz ive seen it... but its <1% in some places.
the judges, and actually more acutely important in this process, the DA are a part of the corruption.
DAs are elected, and so, their motive already suspect. . they also have to work daily with the police department, and so, have incentive to be 'on their side'. the judges half the time are asleep doing whateverthefuck the DA is feeding them, and of course, no cop is every wrong for good-ol-white-boy reasons (this is not a southern phenomena) .
so imagine your typical small town with all this mild corruption and zero accountability on 'issued warrants'. welcome to the u-s-of-a
I've never quite understood why almost the whole American justice system is elected. I mean it's just asking to be abused when appointees are beholden to the money and power that got them elected in the first place.
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