The statists are at it again, trying to transform Texas ping.
Is there probably cause when the issue is a meth lab? Have you seen what happens to a meth lab gone bad? boooom....
Apparently, all Texas police require to search a home, indefinitely detain its occupants, and THEN ask that a warrant be issued is a confidential informant. …Sounds just like Soviet Russia. So where is Rick Perry on this?
no way... in Texas? can’t be... not in Texas... say it isn’t so, Joe...
That’ll.get over turned....
Let’s not forget the supreme court ruled that the 5th amendment no longer applies in that your silence can be used against you.
Insane court rulings are a great danger to America
This is the same disease that permits these idiotic and unconstitutional ‘DUI’ checkpoints. The courts KNEW that there was no legal basis for them, they outright said so in rulings, but faced with the prospect of overturning hundreds of DUI convictions, at least 5 murder convictions, and other major felonies, the courts chickened out, and then started providing ‘guidelines’ to officers which they outright ignore.
It is the same decision that Governor Mitt Romney faced when the Massachusetts State Supreme Court played chicken: could he let the state no longer regulate marriages to protect marriage from the ruling? The answer was no, and he caved to legislation from the bench.
It takes a strength of conviction to stand up and be counted when faced with such questions, a strength that has been leeching out of our society with every passing year.
The best way to fight this chain of events is to make laws that make it a crime for officers to back door evidence discovery, and then go after officers who do try to ignore the will of the people. For cities to outlaw DUI and license checkpoints, and make it a felony to pull over people without probable cause.
The courts may be insane, but in the end, no matter what people may state on this forum, there is no way to govern the United States without the consent of the people. No billion bullet stashes will change that.
I’m taking Texas off my list of places to live.
Nothing like rewarding shoddy police work!
Meth is a plague but I’m not willing to sacrifice the 4th amendment to prosecute its making.
You have a right to face your accuser. So who is the CI? Was it data mining purchases? Or an actual person?
This is not good. How is this happening in Texas? Is it the libs?
Judge Elsa Alcala, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Place 8 (R)
http://www.texastribune.org/directory/elsa-alcala/
Full Name: Elsa Alcala
Education: B.A. Texas A&I University of Kingsville, 1986; J.D. University of Texas at Austin 1989
Spouse: Dan Spjut
Financial Statements
Year:
Election Info
2012 General Election
Won with 78.07% of vote
2012 Republican Party Primary Election
Won with 100.00% of vote
Political Profile
Current Office: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Place: 8
Party: Republican Party
Term Expiration: 2018
Term Length: 6 years
Salary: $150,000 per year
Contact Info
Website: judgeelsaalcala.com
Facebook: Fan Page
There are many of us in Texas who know this state isn’t as “red” as people think.
Police here in Texas are just as thuggish and they are anywhere else. They make up “facts” given to them by made up confidential informants. The word “confidential” means they don’t have to identify the person. In other words, you don’t get to confront your accuser. Cops are out of control all over this country.
texas better get its sh1t together or else the term “hangin’ judge” is gonna take on a whole new meaning.
I happened upon this today. Don’t get angry after reading the first few sentences. Continue on through the article to the part about the militarization of the local cops. And those local cops are already coming for us.
http://www.doityourselfcapitalism.com/when-they-come-your-guns-you-will-turn-them-over