This case does raise legal issues I suppose...but unless I’m mistaken no warranties needed to lift prints from an outdoor place so would DNA in her trash be different ...the girl was 18....my maternal grandma had 2 children by then in the 20s and 30s in piney woods east Mississippi ...to best of my knowledge she never killed any and she was without question finest truly strong woman I ever knew
Am not familiar with any states not observing this.
I believe the supreme court has ruled that trash put out for pickup is not subject to having to get a warrant.
Murder is forever.
"In a footnote placed after the word ''snoops,'' Justice White noted: ''Even the refuse of prominent Americans has not been invulnerable. In 1975, for example, a reporter for a weekly tabloid seized five bags of garbage from the sidewalk outside the home of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.'' The tabloid, which Justice White did not name, was The National Enquirer."
What goes in your trash can is legitimately no longer yours. Constructive possession has been voluntarily surrendered, otherwise trash pickers could be arrested for petty theft.
Indeed, no love for a child....
Regarding trash/DNA and searches, leaving trash outside ones curtilage is fair game for anyone to peruse.
Don’t place your trash past your property line/into a right of way.
As long as it is on your property, it isn’t abandoned even if placed out for pickup. If you pay for trash pickup, the trash is property in transfer and belongs to you or the trash service....unless placed in the public domain.
My trash guy complains that my can is too far from the roadside, but I place it just on my side of a survey marker, on my property, he has to enter my property to claim the trash. It works that way in Missouri anyways.
If the garbage evidence was taken illegally then throw out the garbage evidence.
Just keep the DNA evidence that was obtained through the court order. The defense should be happy with that.
The defense doesn’t have a case. Once again the ACLU is on a murderer’s side—THE WRONG SIDE.
https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/content/news/Bentaas-makes-first-court-appearance-507004201.html
Family who found the frozen infant 37 years ago continue to advocate for the baby.
“He has no family so we are there for him”
Wow
The courts have long ruled that once you put out the trash, it is fair game for law enforcement. Some mafia types have had their trash taken and analyzed for years.
Nope. Once you throw it away, your actions have declared you no longer have any interest in its fate.
As for the woman who gave birth to that tragic baby (I won't call her a mother), I wish they could leave her out in 12 degree weather to die alone and unloved with tears on her cheeks and just a blanket to cover her. I am a woman who has zero sympathy for women like her. The year 1981 was not exactly the Dark Ages. There were plenty of alternatives available to her other than just throwing her newborn out into the gutter.
In 1981, birth control was readily available. So was abortion (ugh). So were all sorts of social services, hospitals, fire stations, police stations, etc. Even a "scared" 18-year-old could have dropped the newborn off in any of those places and just walked away.
No, it does not raise legal issues. The Supreme Court has ruled that trash is community property and is not subject to warrants.
Trash is discarded property and is not sacrosanct.
She was afraid??? So she does worse than “offend one of these little ones”, she kills her baby. She apparently didn’t fear the one that is able “to destroy both body and soul in hell”.
The unconnected attorney, that the news station asked for expert opinion,.....
Did anyone that saw his face, immediately think, “he looks like Neil Armstrong, circa 1969. Looked just like him.
Too late girl... they're gonna "fry your eyes"
I’m surprised that baby killer is still alive, seems prison justice would have hit by now.
You can count on the ACLU to rush to the defense of the most brutal murderers.
The Angel that picked him up from that ditch, warmed him and took him to Heaven wiped away those tears and there have been no more, ever.
Burn the bitch!
She cares more about her discarded DNA in the garbage as the Discarded baby with her DNA she left in the ditch.