If a search warrant can be sealed, then the 4th Amendment is of no effect.
IMO, they are trying to hide the CI (confidential informant). Either the warrant IDs him, or the CI is non-existent, and the complaining officer is tied up with the cartel.
If the CI is real, he burned the cops with bad info to get even with somebody, maybe the dead Marine.
Something like that.
>If a search warrant can be sealed, then the 4th Amendment is of no effect.
VERY true.
>IMO, they are trying to hide the CI (confidential informant). Either the warrant IDs him, or the CI is non-existent, and the complaining officer is tied up with the cartel.
Confidential Informants are, strictly speaking, a violation of the Sixth Amendment.
IN ALL CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS, THE ACCUSED SHALL ENJOY THE RIGHT to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; TO BE CONFRONTED WITH THE WITNESSES AGAINST HIM; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.