AP does not use the word "Manifesto" in this article.
Posted on 04/16/2024 8:18:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Whether the journals of a Nashville school shooter can be released to the public will go before a Tennessee judge on Tuesday after nearly a year of legal wrangling over who can participate in the case.
What started as a simple public records request has ballooned into a messy mix of conspiracy theories, leaked documents, probate battles and new legislation as different sides try to gain an advantage. And even though the main issue of which police investigative records can be released has finally made it to a court hearing, any decision by Chancery Court Judge I’Ashea Myles is likely to be appealed.
The dispute started last spring when groups that included The Associated Press filed public records requests for documents seized by Metro Nashville Police during their investigation into a March 27 shooting at a private Christian elementary school by a former student. Audrey Hale killed three 9-year-olds and three adult staff members at The Covenant School before police shot and killed Hale.
The shooter left behind at least 20 journals, a suicide note and a memoir, according to court filings. A few pages of one journal were leaked to a conservative commentator who posted them to social media in November. Part of the interest in the records stems from the fact that Hale, who police say was “assigned female at birth,” may have identified as a transgender man.
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AP does not use the word "Manifesto" in this article.
I think we all know how this is going to go.
Hey, judges are now the ruling branch of the US Government. Get used to it.
What are they afraid of? That the shooter is your typical leftist hater?
You know it is not MAGA or would have been released before the body was cold.
who police say was “assigned female at birth,”
FBStapo working over the judge as we speak.
Transgender mass killer = local news only. Cover it up, fast!
Yeah, it’ll be decided that the manifesto WON’T be released “in the interest of public safety”
How independent are judges really?
I’ve been curious about this for a while.
Who (and how) can pressure be applied on individual judges, such as from the DOJ, or the bar, or wherever else?
I suspect that some of these judges get a lot of pressure from places that the public is not aware of, but perhaps that’s just my cynicism at work.
They could delay it, but there is already precedence.
See Seth Rich laptop rulings. The dead have no right to privacy, and the public has a right to know.
Someone should remind the judge it should be looked at differently. What would the judge think if it were a conservative judge trying to prevent a white supremacist rantings being released after murder black people.
There can’t be two system of justice.
Unless there is a legitimate national security concern, release any and all records to the public. And not just in this case. In every case.
I doubt that the murderer’s journal contained the locations of US submarines, or anything like that. So this should be an easy decision. Release the journal.
And yes, I know I’m dreaming here. Politics trump the right of the public to know. It’s not even close.
Yep, they have choices not to release. I suppose we went thru the "ongoing investigation" phase and now we can go thru the "public safety" or "privacy" phase.
Funny how some things get leaked all over and others seem to be as safe as if they’re locked up in Fort Knox.
Right.
And not funny ha-ha, but funny peculiar! 😉
Where’s the stripper pole in the background of photo?
More like funny as in conspiracy.
If the shooter had been a white conservative the Manifesto would have been released before the last dead child’s body went cold.
The FBI and corrupt press protect sexual weirdos and Marxists at the expense of truth. In Katie Couric’s little bimbo brain this means conservatives are jealous. It’s how stupid bimbos think... and I guess the ‘FBI’ too.
Why is the AP afraid to tell the truth about the shooter?
I it because people like YOU Travis are perverts? Or that YOU hate Christians so much you want to kill our children? be real Travis...
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