All these kangaroo court farce trials will be thrown out for illegal search and seizure — a rank violation on the 4th amendment requirement of probable cause for the raid. The raid was illegal per se and was based on a known hoax telephone call from a Colorado nut case that they refuse to extradite because it is so embarrassing to the state. This obvious “African American female voice” on the phone never set foot within 100 miles of the place. The damned caller ID showed she was in COLORADO!! The judge is the idiot that kidnapped 436 children ripping them from their mother’s arm and was humiliated by the Supreme Court as dead wrong. What a joke.
It is for the best that it was broken up. But I agree that I think the state may have overstepped in the way it was done. Probably no good way to crack a cult though...
I also didn't like the way they put all the girls in Foster Homes after pulling them out of there. For most of the girls this was the only place they knew, for better or worse. Seems like it would have been better to drag all the adults out, at least the males, and bring a group of Counselors in until it could be sorted out.
Just didn't seem like it was very well thought out considering how long the cult had been there and how long the state was looking for an angle to break it up.
Welcome to FR, but I think you were looking for DU.
Really? And you know this....how? What law school did you attend? Have you passed the bar? Are you allowed to practice law in Texas?