To: ozzymandus
No one was arrested because trace drugs were on the doorknob. A search warrant was obtained
in part because trace drugs were found on the doorknob. From the article, "Kimball also decided there was enough other evidence, without the test results, to provide probable cause for a search warrant."
The doorknob was only a peice of the compelling information that convinced a judge to issue a search warrant. The perp was arrested after a properly executed search turned up illegal drugs.
28 posted on
07/11/2005 11:48:55 AM PDT by
dpa5923
(Small minds talk about people, normal minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas.)
To: dpa5923
I'm extremely convinced that if the cops were to serve a search warrant on my house, they would nothing (unless they planted it). I don't know about everybody else, but I'm very sure that I would find having my door kicked in, being pinned face-first on the carpet, and having my house gone through piece by piece decidedly inconvenient. The cops need to go find a different method of determining probably cause.
30 posted on
07/11/2005 12:00:31 PM PDT by
Excuse_My_Bellicosity
("A litany of complaints is not a plan." -- G.W. Bush, regarding Sen. Kerry's lack of vision)
To: dpa5923
probably cause
Probable cause...that's better!
31 posted on
07/11/2005 12:02:55 PM PDT by
Excuse_My_Bellicosity
("A litany of complaints is not a plan." -- G.W. Bush, regarding Sen. Kerry's lack of vision)
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