[snugs]

What concerns me and maybe this is just a difference in the legal systems in our countries how come the tapes made in the Police Station came into the public domain is this usual?

[Phsstpok]

What concerns me and maybe this is just a difference in the legal systems in our countries how come the tapes made in the Police Station came into the public domain is this usual?

Definitely one of my open questions.  One possibility is that the Minnesota version of "freedom of information" open government records law, common in this county since Watergate, treats things like this as public documents subject to release on demand.  Court records are public documents and generally available unless specifically ordered sealed by a court.  Perhaps he wasn't bright enough to get the judge to issue such an order?

[maica]

snugs, I have not even heard one commentator ask that question. It seems that the Federal Government listening for terrorists talking to each other to make plans to destroy parts of our country and thousands of citizens is to be condemned, but the release of a police interrogation is deemed a-ok because it is salacious and involves a Republican.