Palm Beach SAO Admits Fishing Expedition in Own Brief!!!

3/10/04

[wcdukenfield]

The Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office ("SAO") filed a brief with the 4th District Court of Appeal's this week trying to defend its seizure of Rush Limbaugh's confidential medical records. In the brief, the Democrat prosecutor admits the following: "The State will not be in a position to know what it can charge, if anything, until the records are reviewed."

This is amazing!!! In the letters back and forth between Roy Black and the SAO, which were released illegally and are now the subject of an ethics investigation being conducted by the Florida Bar against the SAO, the SAO said the pharmacy records they seized indicated enough evidence for 10 counts of doctor shopping. Now, in their own brief filed this week, the SAO admits they have no such evidence of any kind to support any counts of doctor shopping. So, they seized Rush's confidential medical records in search of some offense, plastered his prescription drug records on the Internet -- which were then plastered all over television -- and clearly they had no basis for seeking these records in the first place. This also raises serious questions about the information the SAO gave the trial judges to justify the issuance of search warrants. There was no probable cause to support these search warrants, based on the SAO's own admission in the brief it filed with the appellate court this week.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It's just about sex. Can't we mov on?

[Angelwood]

Thanks for pointing out this important development in Rush's ongoing fight to keep his medical records private.

[Born Conservative]

[freedomluvr1778]

Could you post the entire brief so that the good people of FreeRepublic can decide for themselves what the SAO said? One quoted line, followed by personal commentary, doesn't cut it.

Thanks in advance.