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by Ryan Haas OPB
June 21, 2016 9:43 a.m. | Updated: June 21, 2016 10:49 a.m. | Portland
Ammon Bundy and his followers made regular updates to their social media accounts during the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon.
And law enforcement was closely monitoring those accounts that documented their activities.
But defense attorneys for Bundy and more than 20 others awaiting trial for the occupation now argue that hundreds of thousands of pages of Facebook evidence collected by the government were done so illegally, according to court documents filed Monday.
The attorneys argue that the warrants federal officers used to collect data in Oregon and in Nevada for a similar 2014 standoff are overbroad and violate their clients Fourth Amendment rights ...
http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/malheur-defendants-facebook-evidence-thrown-out/
enough
(13,262 posts)PJMcK
(22,048 posts)Who knew?
That's some legal argument the Bundy et al. attorneys are making!
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)I've watched probably over a 100 hours of their YouTube bullshit while it was all going on from Douchebag David Fry to Cliven's ignorant wife...
All evidence you stupid fucks- And your own words will land keep you in the slammer- ENJOY!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Sorry Bundy Bunch; no go. The information that you yourselves voluntarily posted to the internet isn't subject to Fourth Amendment protection. Nitwits. I hope Judge Brown takes this kind of pettifoggery into account when she sentences the guilty parties.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)better internet access and more cable/satellite tv stations. They really don't understand the concept of jail.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)to those pages to Public
Then there's the Bundy fan sights publishing their interviews and press releases
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=bundy%20ranch
Motion denied
reflection
(6,286 posts)the 4th amendment ain't what it used to be. And even more so when you post your idiocy on Facebook.
Morons.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)attorneys Munford and Philpot. These Guys are not the brightest,and do family law and real estate. Someone posed these two finished near the bottom of their J.D. Class.
Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)Snacks for Y'all Queda anyone?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)The government sought to
Olson acknowledges that the government could gather publicly posted information. But the attorney argues that the search of private data outlined in the warrant is so broad, its equivalent to an unrestricted search of a persons home or belongings, which is prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.
Ask yourself, "Do you want the government prying into your private social media without a probable cause showing?"
Rex
(65,616 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)If you broadcast to the world, all of the watchers aren't your batshit crazy brethren. Some are cops.