Posted on 03/06/2013 7:10:12 PM PST by forbushalltheway
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — There is no doubt who is responsible for the Newtown school massacre. The shooter is dead and the prosecutor handling the case has said he does not expect any charges.
Yet authorities are continuing to keep search warrants and police records secret. Media outlets have pressed for the release of more records, which could shed light on a crime that has revived the national debate over gun control and could change the way guns are regulated.
The massacre has led to proposals for universal background checks on gun buyers and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. It also prompted reviews of school security and mental health care and led to proposed legislation in Connecticut that would forbid arcades and other establishments from allowing children under 18 to play point-and-shoot video games.
The 20-year-old shooter, Adam Lanza, killed his mother at their home before killing 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. He killed himself as police arrived.
Prosecutor Stephen Sedensky III successfully argued in December to keep search warrant affidavits and applications related to Lanza’s house and the car he drove to the school sealed for 90 days, saying disclosure would jeopardize an ongoing investigation. He said at the time no arrests were anticipated but had not been ruled out.
(Excerpt) Read more at patdollard.com ...
REALLY?
Nothing unusual about this until the initial investigation is closed. It is pretty much standard procedure. It keeps potential witnesses from being harassed or threatened.
You SURE?
Actually there is, Pat. There are more than a few with far more experience in firearms/law enforcement/mental illness than I who say otherwise.
Refusal to explain obvious omissions in the official story, and sealing records doesn't help to quell suspicion either.
Did a teenage boy write the title?
This guy isn't adult enough to simple title his piece "Just What Is Going On? All Police Records On Sandy Hook Shooting Sealed,""
Everywhere, even in movies, no one still says 'come here', 'where are my keys', 'what do you want', 'why would I' no "the hell" has to be added to everything.
Yep, at that, it is outlined in the Federal Judicial Center’s guide to records.
http://www.fjc.gov/public/pdf.nsf/lookup/Sealing_Guide.pdf/$file/Sealing_Guide.pdf
Ongoing investigations are specifically stated as reasons records like this are sealed.
This one has another sealing caveat in that the victims were minors which is another cause listed to seal records.
Lots of interesting comments about this following the article.
See my tagline.
If I were a witness, I would be worried that Adam Lanza might come and get me.
Oh. Wait. No, I wouldn't be.
Same here, with the Aurora theater shooting.
They don’t want folks to know that most victims died from the buck shot, not the AR, which jammed early.
Thanks forbushalltheway.
I think this is probably standard procedure.
I know, it’s frustrating. It’s pretty clear that there are no other suspects, and no accomplices, and no one left alive to be prosecuted. But is it ABSOLUTELY clear? If they unseal the records and then discover that someone else knew about this, or contributed to it in some way, then it would be too late regretting having compromised the case.
It’s also frustrating because Obama & the media are USING this crime for their own dirty political purposes. But that’s not really the prosecutor’s fault. I think he’s just following the rules. Just in case. Because there’s always at least a minute chance, even in an apparently open and shut case like this, that some new evidence may turn up, or some reason to suspect some other person might have been involved.
I wish. Everything I hear anymore has every other word rhyme with duck.
The CT freaks have been harassing witnesses in the case. For example.
LOL!
Scam is what has been going on from day one.
The American people are brain dead.
The only thing they’re investigating is how to completely cover up the facts of the case forever.
There must be something in the water to keep the American people’s brains in stupor mode.
That too, and cr*p and Sh.. seem to now be required dam* is common, the left has succeeded in mainstreaming cussing, even among conservatives.
When you read a lot of posts, it can become grotesque, it can make one feel like instead of talking to adults, that he is in junior high again, and it works it’s way into all of our daily lives.
riiiiight... I guess the resident truthers have moved on to a new conspiracy
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