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To: rface
"... is equivalent to saying ``that law enforcement is never to be trusted.'' "

and your point would be, mr prosecutor?

5 posted on 02/14/2005 1:39:35 PM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
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To: camle
"Assistant State Attorney James Martz said Limbaugh's argument that he should have been notified before the records were seized by investigators is equivalent to saying ``that law enforcement is never to be trusted.''

In following this case, one of the things that has come out is that if law enforcement officials want medical records under Florida Law, they have to subpoena them. It is a requirement of Florida Law - not a requirement of Rush Limbaugh. Thus, the ASA's point is not valid. If they violated a statutory requirement to get the medical records, if they didn't follow black letter law, it is correct in this matter to assume that law enforcement was not to be trusted.

There must have been some legislative reason for the lawmakers to put this particular requirement into law regarding medical records. Perhaps, they too, have medical records, and would like to have a chance to have any such records sealed before people went rummaging through them before they could challenge the seizure in court. And remember, Limbaugh probably did not possess the records anyway, they were possessed by his doctors. There was little danger of the records being hidden or destroyed. Which, by the way, further erodes any given argument of the ASA about trust.

57 posted on 02/14/2005 2:12:29 PM PST by Enterprise ("Dance with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight" - Islam compels you!)
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