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To: Judith Anne
When was due process NOT followed in this case? I keep asking and asking that, getting no answer.

A search warrant was issued to identify the 16 year old girl who is now being acknowledged as non-existent. That got turned around into a blanket search-and-seizure of the entire property, not just the residence of Dale Barlow (which is also a sticking point as that residence and Mr. Barlow are in Arizona and not Texas).

So you have a search warrant for a girl who does not exist and for a man who does not live in Texas and who has Arizona law enforcement vouching that he has not been to Texas in the cited period because they've been keeping tabs on his themselves.

At some point this process should have been stopped and cooler heads should have stepped in to say that since the original warrant was spurious that everything else needed to come to a halt.

But no. Bias against the FLDS trumped their Constitutional rights.

Now, I am no fan of these people so kindly don't accuse me of that. It's tiresome.

But when this all works its way through the courts it'll all be thrown out and the FLDS will not only be several tens of millions of dollars richer they'll also then be able to practice their abuses with much more freedom than ever before because the Texas authorities will be afraid to raid them again.

282 posted on 04/21/2008 10:09:24 AM PDT by PeterFinn (Charlton Heston & Ronald Reagan - my two favorite Presidents.)
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To: PeterFinn
A search warrant was issued to identify the 16 year old girl who is now being acknowledged as non-existent. That got turned around into a blanket search-and-seizure of the entire property, not just the residence of Dale Barlow (which is also a sticking point as that residence and Mr. Barlow are in Arizona and not Texas).

The sixteen yo girl named Sarah or Sara was said by four or five of those underage girls now in CPS custody to live at the ranch. She hadn't been seen since the previous Sunday--was no longer at the ranch. If you have some proof that she was "acknowledged as non-existent" please present that, since such acknowledgement ought to have made the media.

It was not "turned into a blanket search-and-seizure" at all. Instead, underage girls were observed to be pregnant, LEOs went back and got an additional warrant and served it in a followup visit.

Again, where was proper procedure not followed? How was what I described NOT proper procedure?

283 posted on 04/21/2008 10:23:49 AM PDT by Judith Anne (Don't just do something! Stand there!)
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To: PeterFinn
But when this all works its way through the courts it'll all be thrown out and the FLDS will not only be several tens of millions of dollars richer they'll also then be able to practice their abuses with much more freedom than ever before because the Texas authorities will be afraid to raid them again.

Since proper procedure was followed, and court ordered DNA testing is now taking place, I doubt that anything will be thrown out. Your concern seems a bit out of place.

284 posted on 04/21/2008 10:25:54 AM PDT by Judith Anne (Don't just do something! Stand there!)
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