The authorities actions during the raid would seem to indicate that those serving it though the call was genuine.
However, until the warrant is challenged in court we aren't likely to hear if any significant evidence that it might not be genuine was withheld from the judge that issued the warrant.
I haven't heard any evidence indicating that they would KNOW it was fake. There's always going to be some question regarding the credibility of any anonymous call. It's not really a matter of them knowing if it was genuine or fake, the really didn't have any way to be sure one way or the other. The question was did their body of evidence produce probable cause to search.
I will bet no one gets charged because it will be proved that the state knew the call was bogus before petitioning the judge.
Well, the caller didn't make a false report directly to the police, so I'm not sure what criminal charges might be brought against her. I'm not saying there isn't something they can charge her with, I'm just saying I don't know what it would likely be. She's likely to face a lawsuit from the FLDS.
It's pretty hard for the state to actually know the call was bogus. They couldn't get the shelter's phone records, because I can't believe a judge would give them a warrant to attain until after the call had turned out to be bogus.
They did call the Dale Barlow that they knew of and question him, but Barlow is a common name in the FLDS, so while questioning him might have helped confirm the credibility of the call, his denial of involvement doesn't really make it less credible.
All Suspects Are Innocent Until Proved Otherwise In A Court Of Law!
Definitely. In this particular case, no one has even been charged with a crime yet. Custody cases are civil actions, not criminal ones. The judge is to represent the interests of the child, in accordance with the law. The court's actions are also supposed to be taken in accordance with the law.
In this case, the appeals court has ruled that the law was not correctly followed, because some of the findings of fact were invalid, and the court had other options that to take the children in the majority of the cases.
There was a lot more than this call leading up to the raid(s). They local sheriff had been investigating them for a long time without finding any evidence.
According to an FLDS lawyer on Greta Van Susteren’s show, Texas knew before seizing the kids that the man in the warrant had never been in Texas.