So they gave him a warrant that wasn't exactly for his house?

That's a violation of the warrant system, the judge can be disrobed.

>> ^NordlichReiter:
So they gave him a warrant that wasn't exactly for his house?
That's a violation of the warrant system, the judge can be disrobed.

He said he owns both sides of the duplex, so the property is his, and so the warrant seems valid (though it may be groundless, which is another problem all together) but the police who searched and detained people at the other address, seems to have done so without a legal warrant.

The breadth of the warrant bothers me as much as anything else, the taking of computers/cameras/cellphones for many people these days constitutes a blanket warrant to search all private and confidential records, the fact that these records exist on electronic devices should not in any way reduce the legal hoops required to access or confiscate them.

Moving this video to joedirt's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

Judge Joanne Smith? Such a fake name.

Oh wait.

http://www.mncourts.gov/?page=JudgeBio_v2&ID=30297

She's real. Here's her # (651) 266-8266

# for the courthouse.

Let's *promote knowledge of the craziness she's endorsing.

Mr. Monopoly is on the case. http://mistermonopoly.blogspot.com/2008/09/arrest-warrant-issued-for-judge-joanne.html

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 11:48am PDT - promote requested by Krupo.

*politics

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Krupo, I think this video is more interesting, shot from inside one of the houses under pre-emptive seize all equipment and computers raid.

http://www.videosift.com/video/More-RNC-pre-emptive-police-raids-and-detaining-journalists

Also, read the affidavit the judge signed all on the words of one or two paid CIs. Total bull..

http://tc.indymedia.org/files/affadavit0903-sm.pdf

"He said he owns both sides of the duplex, so the property is his, and so the warrant seems valid"

Umm.. I'm not familiar with MN law, but the landlord cannot consent for the police to search your apartment. There are probably laws about notification period for the landlord to enter the permises.

Regardless, you cannot enter the wrong address on a search warrant. That is the joke of it all, they got a warrant and don't even care that it is invalid. They don't care that it will all be thrown out in court. They know this ahead of time. The goal is intimidation and to seize property and computers. They can get another warrant for the information on the computers later after the see what they found. Or just pass it on to FBI/ DHS.

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