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Blog: Grits for Breakfast: Search warrants for polygamist compound may be invalid

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Today on the blog Grits for Breakfast: Search warrants for polygamist compound may be invalid. The blog links to the Salt Lake Tribune: FLDS retorts: Raid violated the sect's rights. The pdf of the petition that led to the raid is here. A hearing was set for today. The "warrant" authorizes search of what it describes as an entire "city" of hundreds of people. The men say it is "impossible" that the sealed affidavit that triggered the investigation at the ranch listed sufficient evidence to search "each and every residence, structure, school, vehicle, place of business, other facility." The filing describes the ranch as an "unincorporated city or neighborhood of 300 to 400 residents" that includes single and multiple family homes, a doctor's office, a cheese manufacturing plant, a cement plant and other buildings spread over 1,691 acres...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on April 09, 2008 (boomark / email).